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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.
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.
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 ...
George Stinney Jr. BY HARRIET MCLEOD (Reuters) - Attorneys in South Carolina say they have fresh evidence that warrants a new trial in the case of a 14-year-old black teenager put to death nearly ...
The second youngest person to be executed, and the youngest to have a confirmed birth date (of October 21, 1929), was George Stinney, who was electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 on June 16, 1944, after the bodies of two children (ages 7 and 11) were found close to his home. George Stinney maintained his innocence throughout his ...
John David Arnold Jr. White 43 M March 6, 1998 Beaufort: Betty Gardner: 15 John Herman Plath: White 43 M July 10, 1998 16 Sammy Roberts: White 40 M September 25, 1998 Berkeley: Bill Spain, Kenneth Krause, and Louis Cakley 17 Larry Gilbert: Black 43 M December 4, 1998 Lexington: Ralph Stoudemire 18 J.D. Gleaton: Black 53 M 19 Louis Joe Truesdale ...
Died: Marc Bloch, 57, French historian (shot by the Gestapo for his work in the French Resistance); George Stinney, 14, African-American youth convicted of murder and the youngest person in 20th century U.S. history to be sentenced to death and executed (death by electric chair)
In 1944 it was used to execute 14-year-old George Stinney, the youngest person to be sentenced to death in the United States for more than a century. [18] In 1990, the chair was relocated to the newly built Broad River Correctional Institution and was used to execute Donald Henry Gaskins , the first white defendant to be executed for the murder ...