Was sentenced to death for murdering a pharmacist in 1939.
On the day of his execution, he was strapped in, and as the current went
through him - he went unkilled. His final cries were for the strap to
be removed.
After surviving, he then filed a lawsuit claiming he was safe from
execution as they had already executed him and that he simply hadn’t
died.
It was an ominous case. Most of the executions in 1940’s Mississippi
(one of the most racist states in the US) were of black people.
His appeal failed and he was executed the following year by a portable Electric Chair that had been put into use
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