From the Farm to the Electric Chair is the true story about John Wallace. The book details the travesty of justice that followed.
Did the scales of justice tip the correct way in the John Wallace case?
Did a murder really happen in Coweta county? Or was in manslaughter in Meriwether?
This book answers many questions regarding the man and the myth. But it opens up the door to a great deal of unexplained practices within our judicial system. The truth behind John Wallace and the murder in Coweta County, Georgia, is not a pretty tale. There aren’t any saints within its pages. These are, quite simply, the facts surrounding the trial he received.
It’s a story about small town justice within a deep southern rural community back in the late forties. A time when African Americans and women had few rights and even fewer privileges. It’s about justice gone awry for not just the victim or the accused but for the entire population within the counties of Coweta and... More > Meriwether.< Less
