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PHILADELPHIA — In 1931, an all-white jury took just four hours to convict Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teenager, in the stabbing death of a matron at the Glen Mills
More than 90 years after he became the youngest person to be executed in Pennsylvania’s history, charges have been dismissed against a Black teen who was.