Featured story: James Beathard was known as an unconventional thinker—an outspoken peacenik who marched in the high school band and sometimes played chess during lunch breaks. So it confounded residents of his East #Texas home when Beathard was arrested for capital murder. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-innocent-and-the-executed-james-beathards-long-forgotten-story/

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