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Dec 18, 2014 · George Stinney was arrested, convicted and executed in 1944 in the space of three months, and with no appeal. Supporters said his trial was tainted by racism and lack of evidence.
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 ...
Feb 28, 2023 · It took 10 minutes to convict him — and 70 years to exonerate him. The youngest person in the United States to ever be put to death in the electric chair was an African-American 14-year-old named George Stinney Jr. He was executed in the Deep South in 1944, in the midst of the Jim Crow era.
Dec 18, 2014 · The 14-year-old black boy was sentenced to death for the murder of two white girls in a segregated mill town in South Carolina, in a trial that lasted less than three hours and reportedly bore no...
Dec 11, 2013 · Police said their killer used a railroad spike, and for the culprit they fingered a 14-year-old black boy named George Stinney Jr., whom a witness said had been seen talking to the girls earlier that day.
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Jan 21, 2019 · The film follows the last days of George Stinney Jr., a black teenager executed by electric chair in 1944 after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering two young white girls in South Carolina.
Dec 19, 2014 · An all-white jury deliberated for ten minutes before convicting George Stinney of murder, and the judge promptly sentenced the fourteen-year-old to death. He was executed on June 16, 1944, and remains the youngest person executed in the United States in the twentieth century.
