Burton W. Folsom, Jr., is a professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and the author of The Myth of the Robber Barons and Empire Builders: How Michigan Entrepreneurs Helped Make America Great.
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In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did. 'Forget him,' the last line of the story read. But Burt wrote Mitch a letter and discovered a man more i... SEE MORE