In April 1906, a clergyman wrote to Hawaii’s acting governor with an urgent plea: grant clemency to five Korean plantation workers convicted of murdering a fellow countryman on the Big Island.   It was Rev. John Wadman’s hope that “justice may be tempered with mercy.” According to the reverend, three of the men were mere accomplices … Continue reading This UH Professor Is On A Mission To Get The State To Revisit A 1906 Murder Case