Walter Miller (Huntsville capital defendant, 1936)

Full name:Walter Miller
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

Walter Miller, a thirty-five-year-old Black worker, was sentenced to death after a one-day Huntsville trial, according to the May 12 report. Accused of assaulting and killing Vivian Woodward, he reportedly twice narrowly escaped lynching. Five other arrested young Black men were released. The report challenges the prosecution as a frame-up amid official lynch agitation. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n115-NY-may-13-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=2

Case

Charges: Assaulting and killing Vivian Woodward.
Sentence: Death sentence imposed by the May 12, 1936 dispatch; execution scheduled June 19 at Kilby Prison is prospective, not proof of execution or completed custody.

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