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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...
Mar 22, 2014 · The bodies of the girls, both white, were found on the black side of town. Suspicion quickly fell on a 14-year-old black boy named George Stinney Jr who, it emerged, had seen the girls the ...
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...
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 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.
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