Annie Bell Simmons at the county jail in Birmingham, Alabama, after confessing to a murder she had committed several years before.
She is looking downward, averting her eyes. Simmons had just admitted to killing Birmingham fireman George Merrill near Huffman, Alabama, on February 22, 1940. She was ultimately sentenced to forty years in prison. This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on November 30, 1945, with the f...
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