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Ruby McCollum
American woman accused of murder
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Ruby McCollum, born Ruby Jackson (August 31, – May 23, ), was a wealthy married African-American woman in Live Oak, Florida, who is known for being charged in for first-degree murder for killing Dr.
C. Leroy Adams, a prominent white doctor and state senator–elect. She testified as to their sexual relationship and his paternity of her child.[citation needed] The judge prohibited her from recounting more details of her allegations of abuse by Adams.
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She was convicted and sentenced to death for his murder by an all-white jury.
The sensational case was covered widely in the United States press (including a report written by Zora Neale Hurston for the Pittsburgh Courier, the first for a newspaper outside Florida), and gained coverage by international papers also.
The judge subjected McCollum