Death Penalty Ordered in Race-Linked Slaying
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<i> Associated Press</i>
PHILADELPHIA — A black man has been sentenced to die for the shooting death of a white construction worker moments after allegedly declaring, “I want to kill a white person.” Roy Lee Williams, 26, was sentenced Monday by Common Pleas Court Judge John J. Poserina for the murder of James McDonald, 29, in July, 1988.
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