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Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing. but was exonerated by the county in 2022.
Alexander McClay Williams was 16 when he was convicted and sentenced to death in the stabbing death of a white woman.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by
Sixteen-year-old Alexander McClay Williams remains the youngest person the state has put to death. He was exonerated by Gov. Tom Wolf after researchers dug up new evidence.
Sixteen-year-old Alexander McClay Williams remains the youngest person Pennsylvania has put to death.