Crime & Punishment

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ comparison falls flat as Black man is convicted of white woman’s cold case murder

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Last updated: 02/11/2023 at 04:00 AM


Alvin Ray Allen appears in a booking photo. (Mobile Police Department) A combative literary reference wasn’t enough to save an Alabama man from being convicted of killing a young woman decades ago. On Tuesday, Mobile County jurors determined that Alvin Ray Allen, 65, murdered 19-year-old Sandra Elaine Williams on Sept. 11, 1980. Investigators and prosecutors also believe the victim was raped. The day before, the condemned man’s defense attorney compared him to Tom Robinson, the wrongfully accused Black character defended by Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Related Coverag

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