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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.
Method of. Capital punishment. Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading[ 1 ] (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ, such as the ...
September 17, 2024 at 6:00 AM. 1 / 2. South Carolina is set for its first execution since 2011. Let’s revisit its worst. | Opinion. Provided photo. George Stinney Jr. was just 14, a kid fond of ...
Fourteen Days in May is a documentary film directed by Paul Hamann and originally shown on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1987. [1] The programme recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Toni Jo Henry (née Annie Beatrice McQuiston; [1] January 3, 1916 – November 28, 1942) was the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair. [2] Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.
Synopsis. Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talks about his upbringing where his father was a corrections officer. Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair. Leuchter's impression of the event was that the electric chairs used by American prisons were ...
Central Prison. Margie Velma Barfield (née Bullard; October 29, 1932 – November 2, 1984) was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder but eventually confessed to six murders in total. Barfield was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment [1] and the first since 1962. [2]
Skyfall is the first film to gross over £100 million in the United Kingdom. [140] The Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese, becomes the first major American movie to be delivered to theaters in digital formats only. [141] Stalingrad is the first Russian film to be released in IMAX. [142][143] 2014.