When last we saw him (in this column Oct. 11) condemned murderer Amos Ratliff was smiling on his way to a good night's sleep in the death cell within the Arkansas prison known as "the Walls," in Little Rock.
We begin this column where the last one left off Oct. 4: in the middle of a confession. Amos Ratliff, a 25-year-old convicted murderer, on Sept. 29, 1921, thought he was going to die at sunrise the next day.