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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.
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 ...
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
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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 ...
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In 1944, Judge Stoll sentenced 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.
George Stinney Jr. was just 14, a kid fond of art and airplanes with his whole life ahead of him, when men led him from his home and made him confess to crushing two girls’ skulls with a 15-inch ...