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   6 days ago · Alexander McClay Williams was 16 when he was executed in Pennsylvania for the murder of a 34-year-old white woman. His conviction was overturned in 2022. By Sopan Deb On June 8, 1931, Alexander ...

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   May 20, 2024 · Family of Black Pa. teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration. Sixteen-year-old Alexander McClay Williams remains the youngest person the state has put to death. He was exonerated by Gov. Tom Wolf after researchers dug up new evidence. Sam Lemon, right, speaks during a news conference with Susie Williams Carter, center ...

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   May 20, 2024 · Matt Slocum/AP. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the county that prosecuted him. Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing ...

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   May 20, 2024 · Carter, the sister of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania, Alexander McClay Williams, 16, is suing the county where the Black teenager was convicted in 1931.

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   Who was Alexander McClay Williams?

   • On June 8, 1931, Alexander McClay Williams, a 16-year-old Black student, was executed by electric chair, the youngest person to be put to death in Pennsylvania history. Months earlier, Alexander had been convicted of murdering a 34-year-old white woman, Vida Robare, a matron at the reform school outside Philadelphia that Williams attended.

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   How old was Alexander McClay Williams when he was executed?

   • Alexander McClay Williams was 16 when he was executed in Pennsylvania for the murder of a 34-year-old white woman. His conviction was overturned in 2022. Susie Williams Carter announcing a lawsuit on Monday on behalf of her brother, Alexander McClay Williams, whose murder conviction was overturned in 2022. Alexander, 16, was executed in 1931.

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   Who is Susie Williams Carter & Michael Pomerantz?

   • Sam Lemon, right, speaks during a news conference with Susie Williams Carter, center, and lawyer Michael Pomerantz, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Philadelphia. Carter is the sister of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania, Alexander McClay Williams, 16, and Lemon is the great-grandson of the attorney who represented him.

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   Was Alexander McClay Williams innocent?

   • Lemon researched the case, tracking down the 300-page trial transcript, and found problems with the evidence, including documents that show Williams’ age incorrectly listed as 18, not 16, along with the husband's history of abuse. “As I unpeeled the layers, it became quite evident to me that Alexander McClay Williams was innocent,” Lemon said.

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   May 20, 2024 · Carter is the sister of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania, Alexander McClay Williams, 16, and Lemon is the great-grandson of the attorney who represented him. Carter is suing the county where the Black teenager was convicted in 1931. The suit comes two years after Williams’ conviction by an all-white jury was vacated.

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   6 days ago · Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing of a white woman in her cottage on the grounds of his reform school. Vida Robare, 34, had been stabbed 47 times.

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   May 20, 2024 · Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing of a white woman in her cottage on the grounds of his reform school. Vida Robare, 34, had been stabbed 47 times.