The Tragedy of Innocence
December 18th, 2009
By Tom Carter How can it be tragic to be innocent? Perhaps when someone has been wrongly convicted of a crime and spends many years in prison, sometimes on death row, only to be freed when it’s found that he didn’t commit the crime. I recently read John Grisham’s The Innocent Man. This book was a departure […]
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Tags: death penalty, DNA, Fritz, Grisham, innocence, Oklahoma, Williamson
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Educated and Ignorant
September 21st, 2009
AOL News carried this report from Tulsa World: Only one in four Oklahoma high school students can correctly name the first president of the United States, according to a survey released Friday. The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs conducted the survey to find the students’ basic knowledge of civics, Tulsa World reported. Students were asked 10 […]
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Tags: citizenship, Oklahoma, test
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