The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson
by
Jim Bradshaw, Danielle Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family are found murdered. Albert Edwin Batson, a white, itinerant farm worker, rapidly descends from likely suspect to likely lynching victim as people in the surrounding countryside lusted for vengeance. In a territory where...