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Odell Waller (March 6, 1917 [nb 1] – July 2, 1942) was an African-American sharecropper from Gretna, Virginia, executed for the fatal shooting of his white landlord, Oscar Wheldon Davis, on July 15, 1940.
Martin first became involved in a nationally prominent case in September 1941, after the conviction of black sharecropper Odell Waller for killing a white landlord in Gretna, Virginia. Martin developed information that the grand jury and later the trial jury that convicted Waller included only white men who paid the poll tax. Thus, the jury ...
With the WDL, Murray became active in the case of Odell Waller, a black Virginia sharecropper sentenced to death for killing his white landlord, Oscar Davis, during an argument. The WDL argued that Davis had cheated Waller in a settlement and as their argument grew more heated, Waller had shot Davis in legitimate fear of his life. [42]
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Odell Waller; Percy Levar Walton; Earl Washington Jr. This page was last edited on 8 February 2009, at 12:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Two teenagers were convicted in that case: Raheem Muhammad, 20, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and Odell Muhammad, 19, was convicted of second-degree murder.
The group also took on the case of Odell Waller, a Virginia sharecropper sentenced to death in 1940 for killing his white landlord. Arguing that the landlord had cheated Waller and that he had in any case acted in self-defense, the WDL raised money for Waller's defense, lobbied for the commutation of his sentence, and mounted a nationwide ...
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