Monday, June 2, 2008

The Innocent Man ((post #4))

“After two hours of nonstop hammering, Tommy finally cracked. The pressure came from fear – Smith and Rogers were angry and seemed perfectly able and willing to slap him around if not outright shoot him – but also from the horror of wasting away on death row before finally getting executed.”

Don’t get me wrong, I love his book and all, but I keep getting more and more frustrated with it. If it’s not enough to harass one man for a murder he did not commit, while the real murderer is still loose. Now they’ve made another innocent kid confess to the murder of a girl that he didn’t even know.

Denise Harraway was a twenty one year old girl in college who disappeared from work one day; they found no body and had no suspects. The same cops that accused Tom of murdering Debbie Carter now found a new easy target, Tommy. They had no real leads or even a reason to suspect him, but after and eight hour interrogation he cracked and gave them a confession on tape. They now have two innocent men behind bars.

I really hope police aren’t really like that, because that’s horrible, and really annoying. Smith and Rogers are too lazy to actually go out and find the real murderers that they blame it on any random person, and in this case threatened them to death. Ugh.

1 comment:

Jacob Sullinger said...

I think that is complete unjustice on that dudes part. If they have no evidence then they have no reason for charging him with the murder. I am glad some states dont have the death penality because then innocent people won't die and have a chance for a re-trial.