Negro to Die for Burglary - LDF Asks Supreme Court Relief

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December 26, 1968

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LDF Seeks Reversal of Death Sentence on A.B. Childs of North Carolina for Burglary

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Negro to Die for Burglary - LDF Asks Supreme Court Relief, 1968. 6269ab34-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/fa0316e8-d5e1-4366-a40e-c75b14dd280d/negro-to-die-for-burglary-ldf-asks-supreme-court-relief. Accessed October 30, 2025.

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    President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELE! Director-Counsel 
egal efense lund Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC, : Jesce DeVore i 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUnnER 212-749 

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FOR PRESS RELEASE 

DECEMBER 26, 1968 

NEGRO TO DIE FOR BURGLARY 

LDF ASKS SUPREME COURT RELIEF 

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. Supreme Court today was asked to review 

the case of the only man in the United States now under a death 

sentence for burglary. 

Albert Bobby Childs, a Negro from Buncome County, North Carolina, 

was sentenced to death in 1965 after a jury found him guilty of 

rape and burglary. 

Childs' case is being supported by the NAACP Legal Defense 

and Educational Fund, Inc. 

In its Supreme Court brief, the LDF challenges North Carolina's 

lack of standards for jury sentencing determination and the simultaneous 

determination on the issues of guilt and punishment. 

The LDF will seek to have Childs' sentence reversed if and 

when the Court agrees to hear the case. 

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once a part of the National Association 

for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it now is a 

separate organization, even though the initials are retained 

in its title. 

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