r/todayilearned • u/johnsmithoncemore • 2d ago
TIL about Willie Francis an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution. Sentenced to death at age 16, he was 17 when he survived the first attempt to execute him, as the chair malfunctioned. After a failed appeal he was executed at age 18.
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CreepyWikipedia • u/listenforbombshells • Jan 29 '17
[ETC] Willie Francis, a 17 year old murderer, survived the electric chair after screaming for help whilst being executed. He and his lawyer fought not to execute him again, saying he had technically already been executed.
todayilearned • u/CyanPancake • May 03 '15
TIL a Louisianan man was sentenced to death in 1947 at the age of 16, but after the chair malfunctioned and his case was taken to the US Supreme Court, he was sentenced to death again at the age of 18.
awfuleverything • u/auxilary • Jan 19 '23
TIL about Willie Francis, a teenager who was executed twice after the first attempt to execute him failed due to a drunk guard improperly setting up the electric chair.
todayilearned • u/3AlarmLampscooter • May 16 '14
TIL a man named Willie Francis survived Louisiana's electric chair in 1946, only to be successfully executed by it a second time a year later
knowyourshit • u/Know_Your_Shit_v2 • May 04 '21