Black American teen executed in 1931 for murdering a white woman is exonerated by US court, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister
Alexander McClay Williams, aged 16 then, was convicted by a white jury in just four hours and remains the youngest person ever put to death in the eastern US state.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement that the case was dismissed on Monday, after years of litigation. She had been "brutally murdered" in her cottage, which was on the school's grounds, the district attorney's statement said. The ex-husband, Fred Robare, also worked at the school.Interrogated five times without the presence of a lawyer or a parent, he signed three confessions "despite the lack of eyewitnesses or direct evidence implicating him," the statement continued.
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