Quincy Five

Rally in defense of the Quincy Five. Seated (L-R): ?, Father David Brooks, Charles Steele - son of Rev. C.K. Steele and organizer of the Defense of the Quincy Five

The Quincy Five were a group of five young African American men from Quincy, Florida, who were charged with the 1970 murder of a Leon County deputy Sheriff. The men – Johnny Lee Burns, Alphonso Figgers, Johnny Frederick, Dave Roby Keaton, Jr. and David Charles Smith, Jr. – were convicted but later exonerated. [1]

1974 saw the publication of the book David Charles: The Story of the Quincy Five, authored by Jeffrey Lickson. It included extensive material based on prison interviews with Smith, which focused on his upbringing and experiences as a musician and as a soldier in the Vietnam War. At the time, Smith was serving a Florida prison sentence for setting a bomb at an electrical station in North Florida. He was subsequently sentenced on Federal gun charges and released from Federal Prison on May 28, 1992.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Rally in defense of the Quincy Five". Florida Memory. Florida State Library & Archives. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Inmate Locator". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  • Martin Dyckman (18 June 2000). "Innocent lives depend on luck to save them". www.oranous.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  • "Truly Innocent? A Review of 23 Case Histories of Inmates Released from Florida's Death Row Since 1973" (PDF). Commission on Capital Cases. 13 May 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
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