Latonya Collier needed a topic for a college research paper. Her great aunt pointed her in a direction that would become a passion project. Latonya learned her great-great grandfather was the first Black man to die in Indiana's electric chair --- a device he had helped to build.


AN INDIANAPOLIS WOMAN IS SHINING A LIGHT ON A DARK PART OF HER FAMILY HISTORY.
HER DISTANT RELATIVE HELPED CREATE THE VERY DEVICE THAT WOULD END HIS LIFE.