Nearly 70 years after the state of Texas put him to death, Dallas County officials formally exonerated Tommy Lee Walker, a 21-year-old Black man executed two years after being wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a White woman.

Tommy Lee Walker was 21 when he was put to death in 1956 after being wrongfully convicted by an all-White jury for rape and murder of a White mother NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles.