The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South by Gilbert King

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South

Gilbert King

400 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark tense medium-paced
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On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a seventeen-year-old black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the execut...

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