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Granville Allen Research Paper
Trevon Franklin
Ms. Gregory
Missouri History
31 October 2017
Granville Allen
Granville Allen was born in 1910, in Kansas City, Missouri. Granville was the 7th person ever to be executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was executed at age 28 on October 28th, 1938. Granville lived with his mother and some other relatives.
Granville Allen was convicted in the Jackson County Circuit Court on the murder of Howard Preston. He shot Preston to death after he searched Preston's pants and then threatened to mistreat Preston’s son and wife. Preston’s son then grabbed the gun from Allen, and shot Allen as he fled the scene. Allen was later captured near the scene on the night of October 20th, 1936. Granville had not ever been in any other legal
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