Last month one Will Sanders, 16 and black, murdered an old white woman outside York, S. C. Next month Will Sanders will be electrocuted at Columbia.
Last week the prosecutor of Will Sanders announced that he will have the corpse trucked back to York immediately after the execution, exhibited all day on the court house steps. His reason: most Negroes doubt that the electric chair kills, believe that its occupants are secretly whisked away to prison for life.
The prosecutor's announcement filled York blackamoors with morbid interest.
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