Alexander McClay Williams was wrongfully executed on June 8, 1931, for the murder of 34-year-old Vida Robare
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00:00I can't imagine what my mother and father went through.
00:12My sisters and brothers, it's a terrible thing to live with something that they didn't know
00:20really what happened.
00:22My mother kept saying, Alec didn't do that.
00:27There's no way he could have done it.
00:30And there was no way he could have done it.
00:32She was right.
00:33This was not a, you know, a mistake in facts or assessment or, you know, detective work.
00:41This was kind of a legal lynching in a sense.
00:47There was nothing to connect Alexandra to this murder other than the fact that he was
00:53a convenient black boy at the hands of these detectives and this prosecutor.
00:58So these aren't things that happened in the distance past.
01:03These are things that continue to happen to this day.
01:05So you being aware of it and you sharing this information hopefully is going to help some
01:10other young person someday not to endure what these gentlemen and what Alexandra endured.