Pedro Antonio Rios

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

Pedro Antonio Rios was a 22-year-old Puerto Rican convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death in New York in the same wave of cases. His defenders called the prosecution an ethnic frame-up.

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 ethnic frame-up).
Convicted: Yes

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