# Alexander McClay Williams

Overturned · 1930

Alexander McClay Williams (July 23, 1914 – June 8, 1931) was an African-American teenager wrongfully convicted and executed for the 1930 murder of 33-year-old Vida Robare, a matron of the Glen Mills reform school he attended, in Pennsylvania. Williams confessed to the murder during an interrogation in which neither a parent nor an attorney was present. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania wrongfully executed Williams…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=71364786
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/alexander-mcclay-williams-w71364786

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