I love reading Grisham's for the fact that I get to know and understand few things about law. I wasn't that into watching news so I guess, what others already know may come as a new thing to me. After reading almost all of his books and surfing the net with book reviews about him, I realize that it's not fair giving him a review in my blog. I'm not a writer so I don't know what's good and what's to avoid. So this piece won't be focusing on review about the book. I think it will be more beneficial for others if I somehow convey what I've learned in reading the book. Pardon my post if it comes as an old news to you. Who knows, there may be others like me, right? So here's the tidbits.
1. I learned that there's a disease for excessive mood disorder or too much depression called Bipolar disease.
source: wikipedia
Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood, clinically referred to as mania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes which present with features of both mania and depression. These episodes are normally separated by periods of normal mood, but in some patients, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling. The disorder has been subdivided into bipolar I, bipolar II and cyclothymia based on the the type and severity of mood episodes experienced.
2. I learned that this kind of things really happen in the execution.
August 11, 1995, a bizaare execution took place. Robert Brecheen, a forty-year old white male, barely made it to the death chamber. The day before, he swallowed a handful of painkillers that he had somehow smuggled in and stockpiled. His suicide was to be his final effort at telling the state to go to hell, but the state prevailed. Breechen was found unconscious by the guards and rushed to the hospital, where his stomach was pumped and he was stabilized enough to get hauled back to H Unit for a proper killing.
3. I learned that the famous line "you have the right to remain silent" that we always hear in the movies had an actual history back in the 60's. "Miranda Rights" was from the most famous case, "Miranda vs Arizon wherein the Supreme Court imposed procedural safeguards to protect the rights of the accused. It was decided in 1966 an became instantly famous.
4. I learned that not everybody in the prison especially in the death row are all bad people. There are few who are innocent. And that being in prison is harder than it is in the outside world. It makes me value my life even more.
