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George Junius Stinney Jr, född 21 oktober 1929 i Sumter, South Carolina, död 16 juni 1944 i Columbia, South Carolina, var en afroamerikansk pojke som avrättades vid 14 års ålder för mordet på två vita flickor. [ 1] Flickorna, 7 och 11 år gamla, hittades mördade den 23 mars 1944, i Alcolu, South Carolina. [ 2]
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 was questioned in a small room, all alone—without his parents, without an attorney.
26 dic 2014 · George Stinney and the Lessons of History. Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, on the grounds that he, George Stinney, Jr., did not receive a fair trial. The boy had been accused of beating ...
11 dic 2013 · You’re talking about white men in the Jim Crow South with a 14-year-old boy. It wasn’t even close to being an even playing field.”. Modern science. Obviously no can say for sure what happened in the room where the deputies questioned George Stinney Jr. 70 years ago. The officers are dead, and Stinney is dead.
17 dic 2014 · The Youngest American Executed Exonerated. In 2014, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Carmen T. Mullins vacated the conviction and sentence of George Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old African American boy executed in 1944, only 80 days after having been accused of the murder of two young white girls in his home community of Alcolu, South Carolina.
30 giu 2004 · Share This Story. 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 ...
18 dic 2014 · JUSTICE - George Stinney, jeune garçon noir, n'avait que 14 ans lorsqu'il a été exécuté en Caroline du Sud après sa condamnation pour le meurtre de deux jeunes filles blanches. Depuis quelques années, plusieurs avocats clament son innocence, réclamant la réouverture du dossier. Une juge vient d’annuler la décision de justice 70 ans après. - George Stinney : exécuté à 14 ans ...
