The family of a Black teen who was executed by the state of Pennsylvania in 1931 filed a lawsuit seeking damages nearly 100 years after his death. (Video: WPVI-TV/6ABC) Susie Williams Carter was ...
Williams was convicted of stabbing a woman 47 times, leading to his execution in 1931. The conviction was vacated in 2022. The family of Alexander McClay Williams, a Black 16-year-old executed in ...
PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA — 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 ...
DELAWARE COUNY - Alexander McClay Williams is known as the youngest person in Pennsylvania history to be executed at just 16 years old for a crime he didn’t commit. The teen boy's story made ...
Susie Williams Carter was only around a year old when her 16-year-old brother, Alexander McClay Williams, was convicted of murder and executed in an electric chair in 1931. She never knew him.
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PHILADELPHIA — 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...