Letter from Virginia Weisenthal in New York, New York, to Governor Jim Folsom in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the letter Weisenthal asks the governor to intervene in the case of Jimmy Wilson: "At this time I would like to implore you to do your utmost to prevent this and other possible barbarous legal murders. By this I mean not only the saving of Jimmy Wilson but using whatever influence you have f...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1967 |
| Summary: | In the letter Weisenthal asks the governor to intervene in the case of Jimmy Wilson: "At this time I would like to implore you to do your utmost to prevent this and other possible barbarous legal murders. By this I mean not only the saving of Jimmy Wilson but using whatever influence you have for the abolishment of the law making robbery a capital offense in your state." Wilson, an African American handy man in Marion, Alabama, was sentenced to death for stealing $1.95 from a white woman; Governor Folsom eventually commuted his sentence to life in prison. |
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