Concepcion Estrada Correa

Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:New York
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Biography

Concepcion Estrada Correa was a 17-year-old Puerto Rican convicted of felony murder by a 'blue-ribbon' jury in New York and sentenced to death. His defenders called the case an ethnic frame-up amid anti-Puerto-Rican hysteria.

Case

Charges: Felony murder.
Sentence: Death (stayed). Verdict as recorded: Convicted April 1954; death sentence (stayed pending appeal). Charges as recorded: Felony murder — a death sentence his defenders called an ethnic frame-up by a biased jury.
Convicted: Yes

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