‘Frightened Boy Sitting In an Electric Chair’: Black Teenager Executed for Killing a White Woman Gets Exonerated After 92 Years, No Evidence Linked Him to the Case
Alexander McClay Williams, 16, was executed in June 1931, for a murder many believe he did not commit. On Oct. 3, 1930, Vida Robar’s ex-husband, Fred Robare, discovered her body on the second floor of a cottage on the grounds of the Glen Mills School for Boys in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, surrounded by a pool…
