Rising Road

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer''s motive? The priest had married Stephenson''s eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Cath...