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Very Good in Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine ex library copy in fine beige pictorial dj in mylar sleeve. Just two small library stamps on endpaper and title page. 362 pp. including index. On May 3, 1946, a seventeen-year-old boy was scheduled to die by the electric chair inside of a tiny red brick jail in picturesque St. Martinsville, Louisiana. Young Willie Francis had been charged with the murder of a local pharmacist. The electric chair-three hundred pounds of oak and metal-had been dubbed "Gruesome Gertie" and was moved from one jailhouse to another throughout the state of Louisiana. The switch would be thrown at 12: 08 P.M., but Willie Francis did not die. Miraculously, having survived this less than cordial encounter with death, Willie was soon informed that the state would try to kill him again in six days. The case went to the Supreme Court.
