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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
George Stinney Jr. (1929-1944), wrongfully convicted; accused of raping and killing two girls in March 1944; executed by electric chair; Donald Henry Gaskins (1933-1991), serial killer and rapist; killed an inmate at the penitentiary in 1982; executed by electric chair; Joseph Carl Shaw (1955-1985), murderer; executed by electric chair
With South Carolina set to resume executions Friday for the first time since 2011, the cruel and unusual case of George Stinney is worth revisiting. He is not the youngest person ever to be executed.
In 1944, Judge Stoll murdered 14-year-old George Stinney, the second youngest person executed in US history, to death after a 1-day trial and a 10-minute deliberation by an all-white jury. [1] George Stinney's conviction was vacated in 2014 due to fundamental constitutional violations. [2] He died in Columbia, South Carolina, on October 29, 1958.
With South Carolina set to resume executions Friday for the first time since 2011, the cruel and unusual case of George Stinney is worth revisiting. South Carolina is set for its first execution ...
Johnston denied clemency to George Stinney, a 14 year-old African American boy who was sentenced to execution by the electric chair in 1944. [11] Stinney had been wrongfully convicted for the murder of two girls aged 7 and 11 in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. Johnston wrote in a response to one appeal for clemency that
Here are the burial locations of some of the most infamous American outlaws and gangsters so you can create your own macabre cemetery tour. Wikimedia Commons Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson
During the Civil War, the area around City Point was a Union supply depot, established by General Ulysses S. Grant.Its proximity to the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia made it an ideal staging place.