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Two [[African American]] men, Chester Tyson and Mark Peters, were convicted and scheduled for execution for the five murders. However, the then Governor John M. Parker, acting on a recommendation from Judge Sandlin, [[commuted]] their sentences to twenty years in prison. Both were released on April 18, 1936.<ref>Miller, ''Sons of Darkness Sons of Light,'' pp, 187-188, 193.</ref> A petition sent to the Louisiana Board of Pardons claimed that two white men, Henry Waller and Johnie Long, had actually planned and carried out the crime but had each received life sentences, rather than the death penalty. Long escaped in 1922 and was never apprehended, and Waller died of [[tuberculosis]] in prison in 1926.<ref>Miller, ''Sons of Darkness Sons of Light'', pp. 187, 193.</ref>
Two [[African American]] men, Chester Tyson and Mark Peters, were convicted and scheduled for execution for the five murders. However, the then Governor John M. Parker, acting on a recommendation from Judge Sandlin, [[commuted]] their sentences to twenty years in prison. Both were released on April 18, 1936.<ref>Miller, ''Sons of Darkness Sons of Light,'' pp, 187-188, 193.</ref> A petition sent to the Louisiana Board of Pardons claimed that two white men, Henry Waller and Johnie Long, had actually planned and carried out the crime but had each received life sentences, rather than the death penalty. Long escaped in 1922 and was never apprehended, and Waller died of [[tuberculosis]] in prison in 1926.<ref>Miller, ''Sons of Darkness Sons of Light'', pp. 187, 193.</ref>
==Judicial tenure==
==Judicial tenure==