Edward Earl Johnson was a 19 year old Black teenager from Walnut Grove who was convicted of killing town marshal J.T. Trest in 1979 and executed in 1987. His case remains one of the most controversial death penalty cases in Mississippi history. This video explores the full story of Edward Earl Johnson, including the police interrogation, the signed confession he later claimed was coerced, the lack of strong physical evidence, and the appeals that argued he had significant intellectual limitation