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He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty / S. Jonathan Bass.
A reconstruction of the forgotten life of a wrongly convicted man whose story became representative of the Jim Crow South outlines the case's Kafka-esque legal odyssey involving nearly a dozen interrupted trips to the electric chair and the three conviction overturns that were required to secure his release.