# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-francis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:10:39.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-francis"
name: "Willie Francis"
slug: "willie-francis"
description: "Willie Francis was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him. He was 17 when he survived the first attempt to execute him, as the chair malfunctioned. After an appeal of his case taken to the Supreme Court of the United States failed, he was executed in 1947 at age 18."
tagline: "American best known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Francis_by_International_News_Photos.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-01-12"
deathDate: "1947-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.2
  momentum:             0.9253731343283582
  historical:           10.58724666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فيلي فرنسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فيلى فرنسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis"
    title: "Willie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Фрэнсис, Вилли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167368"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump