Murdered by the State of Georgia

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>He left home on the farm in Illinois looking for adventure.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>What he found would change the course of his short life.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1925 Ted Coggeshall was a young farmer from small-town Illinois - caring hard-working and restless. With the open road ahead he set out to see the South chasing sunshine and adventure. But what followed may have been one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice the nation has ever seen.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A local drifter with mob ties-Sam Slim Scarborough-cut a deal to save his own neck accusing Ted and his friend of murdering a retired schoolmaster. Circumstantial evidence. Shaky motive. Just a story the State wanted to believe. Within months Ted was convicted sentenced and facing Georgia's electric chair...the first white man executed in state history.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hearing the news his father stopped at nothing to prove his son's innocence. Thousands in Adams County signed petitions begging for mercy. The Governor never answered. Ted's final letter thanked his community and warned other young travelers to choose their company wisely.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nearly a century later questions still linger. Was Ted Coggeshall guilty...or was he silenced to protect someone else?</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Murdered by the State of Georgia</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> uncovers the shocking true story of a small-town boy caught in a web of lies mob influence and Southern justice gone wrong. It's a haunting reminder that sometimes innocence isn't enough...and that history has a way of burying the truth right beside the body.</span></p><p></p>