1953: "Letters from boys condemned to die..."

1953: "Letters from boys condemned to die..."

In the late 1940s, Paul Green compiled excerpts from these letters from condemned death row prisoners which, as the document states, were "usually written on the night before their execution the next morning." The excerpt shown here is a letter from condemned inmate Lloyd Daniels to his mother.

Paul Green Papers, #3693, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1953