Executed 91 Years Ago, US Teens Exonerated From Charges!

Washington DC –

A black teenager in United States of America (USA) who have executed year 1931 ago on the case murder white woman, acquitted of charges by a Pennsylvania court this week. The release decision follows ongoing lobbying by her only surviving sister.

As reported AFP, Friday (06/17/2022), Alexander McClay Williams was just 16 years old when an all-white jury found him guilty of the 1930 murder of a white woman named Vida Robare. Williams was sentenced to death by a judge at the time.

He was executed a year later and made history as the youngest convict to be executed in the eastern US. However, 91 years later, a district judge dismissed the murder case and found Williams innocent.

“I’m just happy that it ended up being what it was meant to be from the start,” Williams’ sister, Susie Williams-Carter, was quoted as saying by the local Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday (16/6) local time.

“We just wanted it to be aborted because we knew he was innocent and now we want everyone to know that too,” added 92-year-old Susie.

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement that Williams’ case was dismissed Monday, June 13, after years of litigation.

“This is an acknowledgment that charges against him should never have been filed,” Stollsteimer said in a statement.

The case is the latest acknowledgment of historic racial injustices in the US legal system, which punished and in some cases executed innocent Americans, many of them black, in the century following the Civil War of 1861-1865.

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