14 years after duckett s conviction, a retired miami police homicide detective named marshall frank began doing an doing research for a crime novel he wanted to write. i retired to a little town called maggie valley and it s in the mountains. it is beautiful. i had an idea for a novel in which the protagonist ends up on death row. so being an investigator, i wanted to talk to a death row inmate. i got 15 names. i wrote each of them a letter. eight of them wanted to tell me how they weren t guilty. one of the responses was from james duckett. and he seemed logical. he seemed articulate. contrary to what i promised myself i wouldn t do, i said i m going to look more into this. i m not a bleeding heart. i don t fall for people saying
guilty of capital sexual battery and murder in the first degree. on june 30th, 1988, james duckett was sentenced to death. when they sentenced him, it was probably one of the best days of my life. because i took a bad cop out who killed a child. 14 years after duckett s conviction, a retired miami police homicide detective named marshall frank began doing an investigation for a crime novel he wanted to write. i retired to a little town called maggie valley and it s in the mountains. it is beautiful. i had an idea for a novel in which the protagonist ends up on death row. so being an investigator, i wanted to talk to a death row inmate. i got 15 names. i wrote each of them a letter.
on june 30th, 1988, james duckett was sentenced to death. when they sentenced him, it was probably one of the best days of my life. because i took a bad cop out who killed a child. 14 years after duckett s conviction, a retired miami police homicide detective named marshall frank began doing an investigation for a crime novel he wanted to write. i retired to a little town called maggie valley and it s in the mountains. it is beautiful. i had an idea for a novel in which the protagonist ends up on death row. so being an investigator, i wanted to talk to a death row inmate. i got 15 names. i wrote each of them a letter. eight of them wanted to tell me how they weren t guilty. one of the responses was from james duckett. and he seemed logical. he seemed articulate.
when they sentenced him it was probably one of the best days of my life. because i took a bad cop out that killed a child. 14 years after duckett s conviction, a retired miami police homicide detective named marshal frank began doing research for a crime novel he wanted to write. when i retired, i moved to a little town in north carolina called naggy valley, and it is in the mountains. it is beautiful. i had an idea for a novel in which the protagonist ends up on death row. so being an investigator i wanted to talk to a death row inmate. i got 15 names, i wrote each of them a letter. eight of them wanted to tell me how they were not guilty. and one of of the responses was from james duckett. and he seemed logical,
duckett was sentenced to death. when they sentenced him, it was probably one of the best days of my life. because i took a bad com out who killed a child. 14 years after duckett s conviction, a retired miami police homicide detective named marsha frank began doing an investigation for a being wanted to write. i retired to a little town and it is in the mountains. it is beautiful. i had an idea for a novel in which the protagonist ends up on death row. so being an investigator, i wanted to talk to a death row inmate. i got 15 names. i wrote each of them a letter. eight wanted to tell me how they weren t guilty. one of the responses was from james duckett. and he seemed logical. he seemed articulate. contrary to what i promised