Willie Francis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Electric Chair Survivor
Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1929
Place of Birth: St. Martinville, Louisiana, United States
Date of Death: 09-May-1947
Profession: criminal
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Willie Francis
- Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) is best known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States.
- He was a juvenile offender sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a Cajun pharmacy owner in St.
- Martinville who had once employed him.
- He was 17 when he survived the first attempt to execute him, as the chair malfunctioned.
- After an appeal of his case taken to the US Supreme Court failed, he was executed in 1947 at age 18.
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