Ronald Payne

One of the 'Smyrna 7,' Black prisoners at the Delaware Correctional Center prosecuted over a May 1976 escape attempt; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.29 (1976) reports the defense committee's charge that they were subjected to guard brutality and racist convictions and denied a defense that a white co-defendant was allowed. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v15 no.29; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]