About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state), Lynching deaths in Georgia (U.S. state), People convicted of murder by Georgia (U.S. state), People murdered in Georgia (U.S. state), H. Rap Brown, Wayne Williams, Leo Frank, Troy Davis case, Brian Nichols, Chris Benoit double murder and suicide, Gregg v. Georgia, Joseph Standing, Nancy Benoit, William Henry Hance, 1946 Georgia lynching, Old Sparky, James Vann, Vernon Forrest, Coker v. Georgia, McCleskey v. Kemp, Carlton Gary, Furman v. Georgia, Lemuel Penn, James Douglas Edgar, Jack Alderman, Lena Baker, Richard T. Davis, Alberta Williams King, Martha Ann Johnson, Christopher Barrios, Jr., Vincent Papa, Murder in Coweta County, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Eddie Mapp, Ellis Wayne Felker, Derwin Brown, Timothy Carr, Sam Hose, Lynn Turner, Camoflauge, Meredith Emerson, Stephen Anthony Mobley, Janie Lou Gibbs, Delia Green, Curtis Osborne, Melbert Ford, Sidney Dorsey, Mary Turner, John Eldon Smith, Rowland Barnes, William Henry Furman, Nicholas Ingram, Troy Leon Gregg, Lita McClinton, Martin DeFoor, Metro State Prison, William Earl Lynd. Excerpt: Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 - August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American businessman whose lynching in 1915 by a party of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia turned the spotlight on antisemitism in the United States and led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. The superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 26, 1913 of the murder of one of the factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been strangled on April 26, and was found dead in the factory cellar the next day. Frank was the last person known to have seen her alive, and there were allegations that he had flirted with her in the past. His trial became the focus of powerful class and political i...
