The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South Gilbert King, Basic Civitas, 362 pp., $26 In 1946 Willie Francis, a 17-year-old African American, sat in an electric chair, about to die. The crime: He allegedly killed a white man in his hometown, St. Martinville, La.—and not just …
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