Percy Irvin

Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

Percy Irvin was a Black youth electrocuted in the Kilby Prison death house for stealing a half-dollar — one of the Depression-era Southern and Northern frame-up and legal-lynching cases the ILD publicized in 1932.

Case

Charges: Framed or harshly sentenced in a 1932 ILD legal-lynching case.
Sentence: Death or imprisonment; taken up by the ILD.
Convicted: Yes

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