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Henry Matthews

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

Henry Matthews, who used the alias Massio, was a 17-year-old convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death in New York in the same wave of cases. His defenders called the prosecution a frame-up amid anti-Puerto-Rican hysteria.

Case

Charges: Felony murder — death sentence.
Sentence: Death (stayed). Verdict as recorded: Convicted April 1954; death sentence (stayed). Charges as recorded: Felony murder — death sentence (alleged frame-up amid anti-Puerto-Rican hysteria).
Convicted: Yes