Late on an almost-winter afternoon, alone in an open expanse of Oakland Fraternal Cemetery with the shush of interstate traffic in the distance, it’s hard to imagine what happened here 100 years ago today.
Late on an almost-winter afternoon, alone in an open expanse of Oakland Fraternal Cemetery with the shush of interstate traffic in the distance, it’s hard to imagine what happened here 100 years ago today.
A century ago, Arkansas Gov. Thomas McRae postponed the execution of a murderer named Amos Ratliff 10 hours before he was due to die in the electric chair. But the warden and Ratliff’s minister didn’t tell him right away. They let him confess first.