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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 third youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was Fortune Ferguson in 1927 for rape in Florida; he allegedly committed the crime when he was 13 years old. [8] James Arcene, a Native American, was 10 years old when he was involved in a robbery and murder in Arkansas. He was, however, 23 years old when he was actually executed on ...
Romell Broom (June 4, 1956 – December 28, 2020) was an American death row inmate who was convicted of murder, kidnapping and rape. He was sentenced to death for the 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton. Broom was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009, but after executioners failed to locate a vein he was granted a reprieve.
14-year-old suspect won't face death penalty; father charged with 2nd degree murder. Patrick Smith and Marissa Parra and Maria Piñero and Marlene Lenthang. September 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM.
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In 1944, 14-year-old African-American George Stinney Jr. was convicted of murdering two white girls. He was the youngest person in the United States to be sentenced to death. [208] Stinney was executed by electrocution within 80 days of the murders.
A 14-year-old Ukrainian girl who recently moved to Florida is being charged as an adult in the brutal beating death of her 79-year-old ... penalty for the offense is up to 15 years in prison but ...
Lester Eubanks (born October 31, 1943) is an American criminal and fugitive who murdered 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener on November 14, 1965, in Mansfield, Ohio. He was sentenced to death at the Ohio State Penitentiary, which was changed to a sentence of life in prison in 1972. He escaped from prison in 1973 and has been at large ever since.