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- Title: Beecher v. Alabama
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 23, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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On the morning of June 15, 1964, the petitioner, a Negro convict in a state prison, escaped from a road gang in Camp Scottsboro, Alabama. On June 16, a womans lifeless body was found not more than a mile from the prison camp. The next day, the petitioner was captured in Tennessee; he was then returned to Jackson County, Alabama, where he was indicted, tried, and convicted on a charge of first degree murder. The jury fixed his punishment at death. After the Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed his conviction, he filed this petition for certiorari, contending that a coerced confession was used
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