Willie McGee was put to death by electrocution a few minutes past midnight on May 8, 1951, on the courthouse lawn in Laurel, Mississippi for the alleged 'rape' of a farmer's wife with whom he was having a consensual affair. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his death penalty appeal. McGee was publicly executed in a […]

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