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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.
The youngest person executed was 14-year-old George Stinney Jr., his 1944 death marked the youngest lawful execution in the United States during the 20th century. In December 2014, that conviction was vacated. Death row for men is now located at Broad River Correctional Institution. [14]
The execution took place on September 8, when Granger was 16 or 17 years old; prior to the execution, the animals involved in Granger's case were slaughtered in front of him. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The youngest person to have been executed in the 20th century was likely Joe Persons, a boy executed by hanging in Georgia on September 24, 1915 for the rape ...
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 70 years ago for ...
No appeals were filed, no stays requested, and 53 days later, Stinney was killed in Columbia on June 16, 1944, the youngest person legally executed in the U.S. that century.
June 16 – George Stinney, a 14-year old African-American, is executed for being accused of killing two white girls in his hometown, Alcolu, South Carolina. The execution took place in South Carolina Penitentiary in Columbia, South Carolina by electric chair. June 26 – World War II: American troops enter Cherbourg.
A month later in 1944, an all-white male jury found the Black boy guilty of murdering the two white girls. ... killed in Columbia on June 16, 1944, the youngest person legally executed in the U.S ...
December 14, 1945: Executed for the murder of DC police officer Charles Johnston in May 1943. [55] [56] Harry S. Truman: Earl McFarland: White: 25: Male: July 19, 1946: Executed for the rape and murder of 18-year-old woman in October 1944. [57] William Copeland: Black: 38: Male: December 20, 1946: Executed for the February 1944 fatal shooting ...