Frank Richardson Gets Another 60 Day Respite

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Tuscaloosa Times Gazette

Publication Place

Tuscaloosa, AL

Publication Date

02/15/1912

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State Pardon Board Refuses to recommend clemency- attorneys will carry case to supreme court. Was to have been hanged February 22nd. Frank Richardson, the negro under sentence of death for the murder of ex-deputy sheriff Tom Cooper and Brown Horton, on the posse pursuing him has been granted an additional respite of sixty days by the governor, respite dating from February 22nd, the date set for the hanging of the negro. the respite was granted in order that attorneys for the negro might bring his case before the State Supreme Court. Attorneys for the negro are making a hard fight for a commutement of the sentence imposed on him. When the negro was sentenced in court here directly after his trial for killing Brown Horton, his attorneys set in motion the wheels which gained for the negro his first respite of 60 days which would have expired Thursday the 22nd. Since that time the attorneys have interested themselves in getting the negro's sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and brought the case before the State Board of Pardons. That Board sitting in session this week on yesterday handed down its verdict in the matter which in effect would not recommend clemency for the negro. An appeal was immediately made to the governor to grant an additional respite in order that the case be brought before the State Supreme Court; the information had been granted being contained in a telegram received yesterday as follows: Montgomery, Feb. 14th, 1912. Times-Gazette, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Frank Richardson respited until April 19th.

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