Draft:Edgar Labat
Black man (1923–1998)
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Edgar Labat was a black man. He was wrongfully accused of rape, spending 13 years in death row[1] before being freed in December 1969[2].
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Edgar Labat | |
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| Born | 13 March 1923 Omahar, Douglas County, NE |
| Died | 21 June 1998 (aged 75) |
Early Life
Career
Edgar Labat was employed at the Touro Infirmary.[3]
Conviction
Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret were convicted of raping a young white woman in New Orleans in 1950 and sentenced to death in 1953.
They won nine stays of execution.[1] They were acquitted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1966, who ruled that Edgar Labat and Clifton Poret were not given a fair trial by an all-white jury system.[1][3]