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Convicting And Unconvicting The Innocent, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Convicting And Unconvicting The Innocent, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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"When justice disappears," Immanuel Kant wrote, "it is no longer worth while for men to live on earth."
Justice disappears where there is injustice, and the most glaring form of injustice is the erroneous conviction of the innocent. Indeed, the greatest injustice that a legal system can perpetrate against the individual is to punish him or her for a crime they didn't commit, while the ne plus ultra of injustices is the wrongful conviction and subsequent execution of an innocent person. Viewed in this light, what is the current state of justice in America? Is the problem of convicting, even …
Contract On Camelot: New Books Cast More Light On Jfk Assassination, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Contract On Camelot: New Books Cast More Light On Jfk Assassination, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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It has been 37 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, and books providing additional information or helpful insights regarding the Dallas tragedy continue to appear.
The Eponymous Mr. Prince, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
The Eponymous Mr. Prince, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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An eponym, the dictionary tells us, is a name formed from the name of a person to designate a place, and an eponymous person is someone for whom a place has been named. Prince Avenue, the wide Athens street which stretches west almost exactly two miles from Pulaski Street to the Jefferson Road, is an eponym. Described as “once one of the nation’s finest boulevards” by Frances Taliaferro Thomas in her excellent book A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County (1992), but now dotted with professional buildings, fast food businesses, and parking lots, Prince Avenue was named after a …
A Civil War Lynching In Athens, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
A Civil War Lynching In Athens, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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Recently, while reading E. Merton Coulter's classic history of antebellum Athens, College Life in the Old South (UGA Press, 1983 reprint), I came across a reference on page 247 to an Athens lynching occurring early in the Civil War. Having checked into the matter, I can now announce that, indeed, there definitely was at least one lynching in Athens prior to 1882. This lynching, possibly but not probably the first lynching in Athens, took place on Wednesday, July 16, 1862.
Book Review: The Leo Frank Case (1999), Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Book Review: The Leo Frank Case (1999), Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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Book Review of THE LEO FRANK CASE, by Leonard Dinnerstein (University of Georgia Press, 1987, 1999).