Obiter Dicta
The Prosecutor’s Dilemma
"That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)...
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News From Around the South, 10/5 to 10/12
VIRGINIA: UVA Press cancels book critical of leading Southern food figures In early 2025, University of Virginia Press announced the forthcoming...
Tenn. legislature to investigate other execution methods after failed lethal injections
Republican leaders in Tennessee’s legislature say they will investigate the reliability of lethal injection as an execution method after the state failed to execute two death row inmates in the span of five months. Gov. Bill Lee stopped the May execution of Tony Carruthers after a physician unsuccessfully attempted to insert intravenous lines to begin the lethal injection process for over an...
Echoes of Reconstruction: A Black Soldier Reports on Human Rights Violations in the South During Reconstruction
By Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Many of the records of the Reconstruction Era were written by white men. These include...
SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south. My new report, Accelerating...