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Posted on 12/18/14 at 9:01 am to CtotheVrzrbck
There is a similar story about a black teenager being convicted of a murder it seems impossible he could have committed in St. Martinville back in the first half of the 20th century.
Ah yes, the execution of Willie Francis. LINK
Ah yes, the execution of Willie Francis. LINK
Posted on 12/18/14 at 9:03 am to colorchangintiger
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the execution of Willie Francis.
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best known for being the first recipient of a failed execution by electrocution in the United States
damn went to the electric chair twice.
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 9:06 am
Posted on 12/18/14 at 9:05 am to Napoleon
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Napoleon
Some one in my senior thesis history class did their project on him. So he had two written confessions, but it turns out he was illiterate. Pretty sure the cops fabricated the written confession and made him sign it.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 9:24 am to AlaTiger
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This is pathetic. A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY was executed a after a one day trial with the all white jury deliberating for one hour and he was denied appeal and electrocuted 3 months after the girls were killed.
That is justice? You are defending that?
The comments in this post are obscene. And pathetic.
That confession should not have been admissible. Who knows how they secured it? They could have promised to let him go if he just confessed to it, then turned on him.
Horrible.
This...all this. I read the initial post, was shocked and saddened as I assumed most would be. Then, as per the usual for this site, came back to find there were actually idiots defending these actions by the State of South Carolina. I'd love to believe these are just the typical antics of anonymous dipshits on a message board.
I'd like to believe that...
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:11 am to chinhoyang
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Rioting over something that occurred 70 years ago makes as much sense as rioting over Ferguson.
Since when do these "people" use, or have any, sense?
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:13 am to CtotheVrzrbck
The good old days eh?
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:16 am to baybeefeetz
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I wonder if I would confess to a double murder I didn't commit at age 14 short of being tortured.
You must have been one shite law student.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:23 am to REG861
Without having to go through all 7 or so pages of this, who can give me the cliffs on the evidence both for and against this kid being guilty?
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 10:24 am
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:28 am to Darth_Vader
Only "evidence" I've read for his being guilty is that he was seen picking flowers with the girls earlier, so was interrogated (separated from his parents) & told if he confessed he could go back home to his momma's biscuits & gravy so he did, being terrified and 14 & all. ... Seems logical. 
... Pathetic time in this country's history.
... Pathetic time in this country's history. This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 10:30 am
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:36 am to IonaTiger
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have read too much today and I am tired. I read his name as "Stimey".
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:36 am to Arkla Missy
This is truly horrible, there's no denying that. I didn't read all 7 pages, but does anyone else find it a little suspicious that the judge decided to do this and make it very public while the country is going through the racial tension that it is? Seems to be provoking riots and violence.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:36 am to Arkla Missy
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Only "evidence" I've read for his being guilty is that he was seen picking flowers with the girls earlier, so was interrogated (separated from his parents) & told if he confessed he could go back home to his momma's biscuits & gravy so he did, being terrified and 14 & all. ... Seems logical. ... Pathetic time in this country's history.
So no real evidence connecting him to the murders then? Yeah, that's pretty fricked up.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:38 am to Darth_Vader
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So no real evidence connecting him to the murders then? Yeah, that's pretty fricked up.
Oh, but he 'confessed.'
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:41 am to High C
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This is truly horrible, there's no denying that. I didn't read all 7 pages, but does anyone else find it a little suspicious that the judge decided to do this and make it very public while the country is going through the racial tension that it is? Seems to be provoking riots and violence.
I dunno, the entire process to try to get his conviction overturned has been happening for some time now, before the Ferguson stuff. May just be a coincidence.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 10:55 am to Arkla Missy
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Posted on 12/18/14 at 11:00 am to ctiger69
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Facts are gone for this case and some people never cared about facts anyway.
Like the prosecutors, judge, jury, etc. An innocents 14 year old was executed and you can't even admit it. What a sad human being you are.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 11:03 am to baybeefeetz
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I was smart at age 14.
So what happened?
Posted on 12/18/14 at 11:05 am to ctiger69
Considering the times these horrendous murders took place, it would be very plausible to look at any psychopathic and/or drunk male relative of the girls. In those days, particularly in the South, the blacks weren't the only ones to catch hell for "interracial mingling." Not out of the realm of possibility that someone close to the girls, (uncle, father, brother, etc.) who'd either seen or heard about them picking flowers with the black boy earlier, lost his shite while "teaching the girls a lesson" & beat them to death.
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 11:21 am
Posted on 12/18/14 at 11:08 am to CtotheVrzrbck
I'm fine with that, there are plenty of thug 14 yr olds that should be executed these days
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