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Willie Brown

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

Willie Brown was a sixteen-year-old Black youth of Philadelphia sentenced to the electric chair on 13 May 1932 by Judge McDevitt for the murder of a white girl, Dorothy Lutz — a conviction the ILD fought as a frame-up built on a beaten-out confession with no evidence.

Case

Charges: Murder (Philadelphia; conviction based on a coerced confession)
Arrested: 1932
Sentence: Death; the ILD fought the case as a frame-up.
Convicted: Sentenced to death, 13 May 1932