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Willie Francis
Deceased Person
1929 – 1947
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Who was Willie Francis?
Willie Francis is best known for being the first recipient of a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. He was a black juvenile offender sentenced to death by electrocution by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for murdering Andrew Thomas, a Cajun pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.
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- Born
- Jan 12, 1929
Louisiana - Ethnicity
- African American
- Died
- May 9, 1947
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on July 23, 2013
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