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Mar 22, 2014 · Accused of killing two white girls in South Carolina, George Stinney Jr was tried and electrocuted in just 83 days. As a judge ponders whether to quash the verdict, Karen McVeigh speaks to the...
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. Judge Carmen Tevis Mullen vacated George...
May 8, 2021 · South Carolina may bring back electric chair, once used to execute a 14-year-old boy later exonerated. By Lindsey Bever. and. Gillian Brockell. May 8, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. George Stinney...
Dec 18, 2014 · It took 10 minutes to convict 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. It took 70 years after his execution to exonerate him. - The Washington Post. This article was published more than 9 years ago. It...
Jun 30, 2004 · On June 16th, 1944, the state of South Carolina executed George Stinney, Jr. He was fourteen years, six months, and five days old, the youngest person ever executed in the United States in the 20th Century. Stinney, who was black, was convicted of murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8, with a ...
Dec 17, 2014 · Innocent teen George Stinney was tried, convicted and executed in 83 days in Jim Crow south of 1944: ‘a truly unfortunate episode in our history’. Stinney family seeks to clear executed...
Dec 18, 2014 · Dec. 17, 2014. Calling it a “great and fundamental injustice,” a South Carolina judge on Wednesday vacated the 1944 murder conviction of 14-year-old George J. Stinney Jr., the youngest person...
