November 26, 1999

Verbatim

By SCOTT HELLER

Proximity to Death by William S. McFeely (W.W. Norton)

Mr. McFeely, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor emeritus of the humanities at the University of Georgia, testified as an expert witness in a capital case in 1995. He contended that a black defendant could not get a fair trial in a Georgia courtroom that housed a state flag harking back to the Confederacy. Already an opponent of the death penalty, he was prompted by the courtroom experience to chronicle the uphill

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