That’s right. The State of Georgia is planning, for the first time since 1945, to execute a woman, a woman whose crime actually was carried out by someone else. Kelly Gissendaner was convicted of planning the 1997 murder of her husband and was sentenced to death. The man who actually committed the crime, Kelly’s boyfriend at…
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At the Prison: No School Today. It’s Confederate Memorial Day. Really?
Yes, really. Not one of the teachers with whom I work at Lee Arrendale State Prison knew that the state of Georgia officially observes Confederate Memorial Day. I found out last month from one of my classroom aides, an inmate who pointed out the date (April 27) on the official calendar of state holidays. When I…
