With posthumous pardons, a wrong is righted after 60 years
Samuel Shepherd (left) and Walter Lee Irvin lie on the roadside near Umatilla, Fla., on Nov. 7, 1951, after they were shot by Lake County Sheriff Willis McCall, who claimed the handcuffed men tried to escape as he transferred them from prison to a jail. Shepherd was killed and Irvin critically wounded. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a Cabinet granted posthumous pardons Friday to Shepherd, Irvin, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas, the Groveland Four, AfricanAmerican men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 in a case now seen as a racial injustice.