Black US teen cleared of murder, 91 years after his execution
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.
The decision "is an acknowledgement that the charges against him should never have been brought," the statement said.
The case is the latest recognition of historic racial injustices in the US legal system, which convicted and in several cases executed innocent Americans, many of them Black, in the century following the 1861-1865 Civil War.
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