Alexander McClay Williams is known as the youngest person in Pennsylvania history to be executed at just 16 years old for a crime he didn’t commit.
The teen boy's story made waves for decades, with his conviction finally being overturned in 2022. On Monday, his remaining relatives are hoping to right a wrong over 90 years later by filing a civil lawsuit."Mr. Williams was legally abandoned by the court system and left to die at the hands of the state," Attorney Joseph Marrone stated as he read a 2022 proclamation signed by then-governor Tom Wolf.
MORE HEADLINES:"My mother kept saying Alex didn’t do that. There’s no way he could’ve done that. And he was right, but it affected us all."Susie Carter is Alexander's last living sibling at 94 years old. She is the 11th of 13 children, and was just a year old when her brother was sentenced to death."I have 8 children. I can’t imagine what my father and mother went through," Carter said.
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