Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Pardon

Pardon
This was one of the worst things I've read in years...I also listened (radio) to the man who forced the Georgia Board of Pardon and Paroles to issue the pardon. He was in the county clerks office of a small rural Georgia county, asking for information about another case...the clerk asked, "Do you mean the Lena Baker case?". He had never heard of it before that time. Curious, he asked to see the paperwork and was immediately struck by the terrible injustice he saw as he read the transcript of the trial. Made me wonder how many other dark secrets are held in the files of rural courthouses in the South. Disgusting!

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