LA Post: Teen Wrongfully Executed in 1931: Family Sues Over Racial Injustice

The youngest prisoner in Pennsylvania history was mistakenly executed, marking a dark chapter in the state's history and a serious miscarriage of justice. According to NBC 10, the accused, Alexander McClay Williams, an African-American teenager was wrongfully convicted of a gruesome murder he did not commit. After decades of tenacious efforts by his family, that heinous wrong is finally being addressed through legal action. The outlet reported that on October 3, 1930, the bloody murder of 34-year-old Vida Robare at the Glen Mills School for Boys, where she worked, sent shockwaves through the local community. The prime suspect quickly became 16-year-old student, Alexander McClay Williams, despite a complete absence of evidence linking the youth to the brutal crime scene where Vida had been stabbed 47 times. Through means debated to this day, investigators extracted a forced confession from the frightened teen. An all-white jury swiftly convicted Williams of first-degree murder, damning him to execution by electric chair – a fate he met on June 8, 1931, just four months after Vida's slaying. For over nine decades, Williams' remaining family members professed his innocence. Their crusade alongside Williams' original lawyer's descendants like Dr. Sam Lemon exposed glaring irregularities – forged death certificates, evidence implicating Vida's ex-husband as the likelier culprit, and the improbable notion of a 16-year-old overpowering and killing an adult woman in such a savage manner. Their pursuit of justice was finally realized in 2022 when Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf acknowledged the grave injustice by posthumously exonerating Williams and granting him an honorary retrial. Buoyed by this monumental victory, Williams' 94-year-old sister Susie and their legal team announced filing a federal civil rights lawsuit on May 20, 2023, squarely aimed at Delaware County - the jurisdiction responsible for Williams' prosecution and execution nearly a century ago. "They murdered him," the anguished Susie declared at the launch of the legal action. "They need to pay for killing my brother," per WHYY-PBS The platform reported that the complaint alleges willful misconduct by the county's prosecutors and investigators of the time, accusing them of racial bias in pursuing the cursory conviction of Williams as a "convenient Black boy" scapegoat for the actual killer. It names the estates of the prosecutor and detectives as co-defendants. While the court of public opinion had long absolved Williams, this lawsuit represents the family's final quest to hold the systemically racist criminal justice apparatus accountable for cutting short his life through a rush to judgment fueled by prejudice of the era. For the Williams family, no amount of restitution can undo the decades of anguish they have endured from this grave injustice. But they remain resolute that this legal action can catalyze atonement and prevent the recurrence of such a deplorable violation of human rights in the future.

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'Emilia Pérez' sets Golden Globe nominations record, surpassing 'Barbie'

The nominees for the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards were officially announced Monday, less than a month before the ceremony is set to take place. Netflix’s gender-bending “Emilia Pérez” led the way with 10 motion picture nominations, a new record, while FX’s “The Bear” received five nominations in top television categories. Netflix garnered 23 nominations – the most overall – in TV categories. It also received 13 nominations in movie categories. “Emilia Pérez” captured nominations for best movie musical or comedy, along with best actress nomination for Karla Sofía Gascón and best director and screenplay nominations for Jacques Audiard. It