Officials have declared that a Texas Black man executed nearly 70 years ago is innocent in a case prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and riddled with racial bias. Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a white woman.
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