Bill Lofquist and Jody DiPerna In the fall of 1923, a young woman from Pittsburgh’s East End was murdered. The police built a case against Lorenzo Savage, a young Black man, that closely followed a common, racist criminal justice script of the era. He was portrayed by the police and the media as a brute […] The post One hundred years ago today, a Pittsburgh man was executed. He was likely innocent. first appeared on Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
