Rev. Keith Schroeder in The Confession is a men who believes he is not affected by injustice but somehow he is unable to stop thinking about the possibility that an innocent man may be executed and the judicial system would not do anything about it regardless of how much prove is presented. Grisham raises the problem that, like Schroeder, many of us feel the need to trust the criminal justice system, and we try to ignore the fact that at times it makes mistakes, and that people can die from those mistakes.
The reverend and his family are people of good morals, but until they have to deal with a case of death penalty, they are unaware of what happens in the judicial system, let alone the laws on a state hundreds of mile away. Even Travis Boyette, the actual murderer, a person who has been dealing with the system most of his life, can’t understand how is it possible that Donte Drumm was still in jail sentenced to die. “Oh, I thought about it off and on for a few years. I figured the …show more content…
In The Confession Paul Koffee would rather die than to acknowledge that the case of Dante wasn't true as Grisham explains: “No, he would not do it. He would rather run like a coward than deal with that woman. Admitting they had prosecuted and executed the wrong man was, at that moment, far beyond the limits of his imagination.” Unfortunately eighty percent of low income families in the US who need civil legal assistance do not receive any according to the Washington Post, a problem that in many cases allow the police departments and prosecutors to get away with guilty verdicts gain through false or manipulated confessions, also a website called innocenceproject.org states that “more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating