Garner Goodman did not return to Chicago on Wednesday
morning, but instead flew to Jackson, Mississippi. He rented a car
at the airport and drove straight to the state courthouse. Four
years earlier, during the days and hours prior to the Maynard Tole
execution, Goodman had made this same journey on two
occasions. There was a different governor then, a different client,
and a different crime. Tole had murdered several people in two
days of violent crime, and it had been difficult to find any pity for
him. He hoped Sam Cayhall was different. His crime was ancient
history to many Mississippians.