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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 ...
Feb 28, 2023 · In 1944, George Stinney Jr. was accused of murdering two girls and sentenced to death after just 10 minutes. Seventy years later, his conviction was overturned.
May 8, 2021 · George Stinney Jr. was put to death in 1944 at age 14, and exonerated in 2014 of killing two young White girls. South Carolina used electrocution then, and is considering bringing...
Dec 19, 2014 · An African-American boy, George Stinney, who was executed when he was 14 years old for the killing of two young white girls, was exonerated this week, seventy years after he became the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 1900s. A South Carolina judge ruled he was denied due process.
George Stinney Jr. was only 14 years old when he was executed by electrocution on June 16, 1944, for the murder of two white girls, in Alcolu, South Carolina. George’s spurious case has understandably tormented civil rights advocates for years.
George Stinney Jr was executed in 1944 for the murder of two white girls. (Reuters) In March 1944, deep in the Jim Crow South, police came for 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. His parents weren’t...
Aug 21, 2018 · George Stinney Jr, of African descent, was the youngest person to be executed in the 20th century in the United States. This young black was only 14 years old at the time of his execution...
Dec 18, 2014 · An African-American boy, George Stinney Jr., who was executed at age 14 in the killing of two young white girls has been exonerated in South Carolina, 70 years after he became the youngest person...
Dec 17, 2014 · BEAUFORT - S.C. - A 14-year-old South Carolina boy who was quickly convicted of murder and then executed in 1944 has been posthumously exonerated.
Dec 18, 2014 · George Stinney Jr became the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944, but more than 70 years after his...
