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More on Wilbert Rideau

By Steve Hall

Wilbert Rideau will be Terry Gross' guest today on Fresh Air.  Check your local NPR affiliate for broadcast time in your location.  You can also listen to the interview at the link.  Here's an extended excerpt of the program description:In 1961, Wilbert Rideau shot a bank teller named Julia Ferguson in the aftermath of a botched bank robbery. He was convicted by an all-white, all-male jury of murder and sentenced to die. Rideau lived on death row at Louisiana State Penitentiary -- better known as Angola -- from the time he was 19 to the time he was 31. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the death penalty as it was then practiced, and his sentence was commuted to life in prison. At the time, Angola was very much a segregated prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).