Governor Roy Barnes Answer

02/19/2024

A. Barnes was influential in bringing about a reexamination of the case against Leo Frank, the Jewish business owner who was convicted in 1913 on charges that he assaulted and strangled a 13-year-old female employee. When Frank’s death penalty was commuted and changed to life in prison by then governor John Slaton, a mob stormed the prison, dragged Frank out, and lynched him. Frank was pardoned in 1986, but Barnes’s efforts have led to a possible exoneration of Leo Frank.

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