Family Files Lawsuit For Black Teen Who Was Wrongly Cnvicted
Alexander McClay Williams was posthumously exonerated in June 2022.
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Alexander McClay Williams was posthumously exonerated in June 2022.
The family of a wrongly convicted Black teen who was the youngest person to ever be executed in Pennsylvania is suing Delaware County.
Alexander McClay Williams was executed in Pennsylvania in 1931 for a crime he didn't commit. His family is now bringing a lawsuit against the state and Delaware...
The family of Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teen who was executed in Pennsylvania after being convicted of murder in 1931, have filed a lawsuit nearly 100 years after his death.
By the time he reached his 16th birthday, Alexander McClay Williams had achieved a dubious distinction at the Glen Mills School for Boys, a facility for adjudicated youth in Thornbury. Assigned there in 1926 when he was 12 by Delaware County Judge W. Roger Fronefield because he had set fire to a barn on Baltimore […]