In 1873, Georgia Governor James M. Smith insured that justice prevailed in Preston, Georgia. Enoch F. Spann and his paramour Susan Eberhart were tried and convi

A tale of intrigue and murder set in rural Webster County, Georgia, in the 1870s. Enoch and Sarah Spann hired a young girl to come into their household. The int

In 1872 Susan Eberhart was convicted of murder for helping her lover to kill his wife. The Atlanta Constitution ran a story about her hanging in Georgia that co

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. Thi

Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the American judicial system. Although the system has met with enormo