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 | The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South (1st Edition) by Gilbert King Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-465-00265-X / 046500265X ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00265-8 / 9780465002658 On May 3, 1946, a seventeen-year-old boy was scheduled to die by the electric chair inside of a tiny red brick jail in picturesque St. Martinsville, Louisiana. Young Willie Francis had been charged with the murder of a local pharmacist. The electric chair-three hundred pounds of oak and metal- had b | |