However, many will also argue that the chances of this 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 even be a “…confession that was so obviously coerced by the police…” (Grisham 118) that will be grounds for convicting a murderer, but that 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 excruciating pain Donte Drumm felt while on death row: “Would you rather look death boldly in the face and say you're ready because whatever awaits you on the other side must be better than growing old in a cage you're for ten with no one to talk to. You consider yourself half-dead at best. Please take the other half.”