Analysis Of The Confession By John Grisham

My Opinion on Capital Punishment After Reading John Grisham’s The Confession
Before I began reading John Grisham’s The Confession, my opinion against the death penalty was simple: I was against it. In The Confession, John Grisham tries to persuade his audience to agree that capital punishment is wrong by using his character’s opinions to voice his own, and describing any character that supported the death penalty in an unflattering light. His main theme was that Donte, an innocent man is executed because he was unjustly sentenced to death. Although, Grisham’s The Confession describes a fictitious situation in which the death penalty should have been left off the table because an innocent man was killed, the chances of something like that happening in reality are

However, most will also argue that the chances of that happening in real life are not very likely and that most people on death row deserve to be there. It is true that an innocent man on death row may never be wrongfully killed, or that there will also be a “…confession that was so obviously coerced by the police…” (Grisham 118) that will be a cause to convict a murderer, but it doesn’t change the fact that capital punishment is as wrong in real life as it is in The Confession.
John Grishman used Pathos in his novel The Confession, to convince the reader that the death penalty is a horrible punishment. John Grishman describes the agonizing pain that Donte Drumm felt while he was on death row:
“You’d rather stare death boldly in the face and say you’re ready because whatever is waiting on the other side has to be better than growing old in a six-by-ten cage with no one to talk to. You consider yourself half-dead at best. Please take the other half.”