Harry Lee Execution (Ep 3): Canfield Roots.
Harry Lee Execution (Ep 3): Canfield Roots.
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On a cloudless February night in 1953, former Canfield resident Harry Lee was hung for murder in Hamilton, the last man to to be executed at that city's notorious Barton Jail. Seventy years later, former residents of Canfield reflects on the impact of Lee's hanging on the village community while Betty Ann Newman grapples with the memory of the man she called Uncle Harry. He was the son of a Black mother and a Spanish father.
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