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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.
"I'm just happy that it finally turned out the way it should have in the beginning," Williams' sister, Susie Williams-Carter, was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying on Thursday.
"We just wanted it overturned, because we knew he was innocent, and now we want everyone else to know it, too," the 92-year-old said.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement that the case was dismissed on Monday, after years of litigation.
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.
On October 3, 1930, the estranged ex-husband of Vida Robare, a white matron at the Glen Mills School for Boys, a detention center for young offenders, found Robare's body.
She had been "brutally murdered" in her cottage, which was on the school's grounds, the district attorney's statement said. The ex-husband, Fred Robare, also worked at the school.
Williams, who was serving an indefinite term at Glenn Mills, was charged with the crime.
Interrogated five times without the presence of a lawyer or a parent, he signed three confessions -- "despite the lack of eyewitnesses or direct evidence implicating him," the statement continued.
When he was finally appointed a lawyer, it was William H. Ridley, the first African-American member of the county bar.
"Ridley was given $10 by the Court for expenses (approximately $173 today), and had only 74 days to establish a defense, without the assistance of investigators, experts, or resources," the statement said.
"The Commonwealth had assembled a 15-member team to handle the trial, which lasted less than two days. The defendant faced an all-white jury, which found him guilty in less than four hours. No appeal was ever filed."
Stollsteimer paid tribute to the Williams' sister and Ridley's great-grandson, who "worked tirelessly for years to demonstrate the inconsistencies in the evidence as well as the unscrupulous manner in which the case was handled."
There was "substantial" evidence that was either ignored or unexamined, he said.
That included the bloody handprint of an adult male found near the door of the crime scene, photographed by police but never mentioned at trial -- and the fact Vida Robare divorced her husband for "extreme cruelty," but he was never examined as a suspect.
"We believe that this young man's constitutional protections were violated in an irreparable way," said Stollsteimer.
O.Johnson--AMWN