The Nation - News from April 15, 1988
Earl Clanton Jr., who took part in the largest Death Row breakout in U.S. history, was executed in the electric chair at the state penitentiary in Richmond, Va., for the murder of a school librarian during an $8 robbery. Clanton, 33, gained notoriety in May, 1984, when he and five other convicted killers staged an escape from a Death Row touted as “escape-proof.†Clanton was recaptured less than two days later.
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