The Boy Who was Executed Twice

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The teenager was Willie Francis, the youngest of 13 children in a poor black family living in Louisiana. Francis supposedly murdered 53 year old pharmacist Andrew Thomas in St. Martinville, Louisiana in 1944. Thomas was found shot five times at close range just outside of his home.

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Sources:

http://fordham.academia.edu/DeborahDenno/Papers/1547642/When_Willie_Francis_Died_The_Disturbing_Story_Behind_One_of_the_Eighth_Amendments_Most_Enduring_Standards_of_Risk
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http://www.alternet.org/story/89950/revisiting_the_execution_of_willie_francis%3A_race,_murder_and_the_search_for_justice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kemmler
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89629004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_M._Place
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Barbella
http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Willie_Francis_prison_wall.jpg