Christa Pike’s Case Has Everyone Talking About Louisiana’s Willie Francis

LOUISIANA – For 80 years, Louisiana has held one of America’s strangest and most disturbing death penalty stories.

Long before Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike shocked the country this year, a teenager from St. Martinville, Louisiana, survived the electric chair. His name was Willie Francis, and his case actually changed American legal history…

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