Daily News | Gov. Wolf exonerated a Delco teen who was executed decades ago for a murder he didn’t commit
Nine decades after Alexander McClay Williams was executed for a murder prosecutors now say he didn’t commit, his name has been cleared.
“This makes me really, truly happy,” Susie Williams-Carter said, tearfully. “When the resurrection comes, my mom and dad will know they were always right, and that he never did this.” The jury took took just four hours to convict Williams, and he was executed six months later, the youngest person ever put to death in Pennsylvania history.
In June, Delaware County Court Judge Kevin F. Kelly granted Williams a new trial, in part because of the evidence uncovered by Lemon and attorney Robert Keller. Immediately afterward, District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer withdrew the charges, clearing Williams’ name. In the proclamation from the governor, presented by Celeste Trusty, the secretary of the state board of pardons, he apologized to Williams’ family for the “egregious miscarriage of justice.”
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