NEW YORK (HRNW) – An African-American teen executed in 1931 for the murder of a white woman was exonerated by a Pennsylvania court this week, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister.
Alexander McClay Williams, age 16, was convicted by a white jury in just four hours, and remains the youngest person ever put to death in the eastern US state.
But 91 years later, a county judge dismissed the case and declared Williams was innocent.
“I m just happy that it finally turned out the way it should have in the beginning,” Williams sister, Susie Williams-Carter, was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying on Thursday.
“We just wanted it overturned, because we knew he was innocent, and now we want everyone else to know it, too,” the 92-year-old said.
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