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Justice for Alexander McClay Williams: A Family’s Quest to Clear His Name
In 1931, 16-year-old Alexander McClay Williams became the youngest person executed in Pennsylvania's history. Convicted of murdering Vida Robare, a matron at the Glen Mills School, a youth detention facility near Philadelphia, his execution by electric chair left his family in anguish and shame. For 85 years, his sister, Susie Williams Carter, believed he was guilty. However, new evidence has surfaced, prompting Carter and her family to seek justice for Alexander and clear his name.
