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pressherald.com on 2024-05-21 01:37

Prosecutors, cops withheld key evidence against a Black teen executed for a 1931 murder he didn’t commit, lawsuit says

Alexander McClay Williams was 16 when he was convicted and sentenced to death in the stabbing death of a white woman.

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