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Ollie Dawson

Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Virginia
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Biography

Ollie Dawson was a Black worker held in the Norfolk, Virginia jail — in the cell next to Archie Gibbs — and, the Labor Defender reported, railroaded to the electric chair on a framed murder charge in a trial rushed through in a couple of days before a hostile jury; he was electrocuted a few days after Gibbs's release.

Case

Charges: Murder (conviction denounced by the ILD as a frame-up)
Sentence: Death; electrocuted. Verdict as recorded: Convicted and executed, 1931
Convicted: Yes