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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, South Caro...
Feb 28, 2023 · George Stinney Jr. was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was convicted and killed in the electric chair in 1944 for the murder of two white girls. His case was reopened in 2014 and he was posthumously exonerated in 2015 after new evidence emerged that cast doubt on his guilt.
Dec 18, 2014 · In March 1944, deep in the Jim Crow South, police came for 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. His parents weren’t at home.
Dec 19, 2014 · George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, was executed in 1944 for the killing of two white girls. A South Carolina judge ruled that he was denied due process and vacated his conviction in 2014.
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...
Learn about the case of George Stinney Jr., the youngest person executed in modern times in the US, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering two white girls in 1944. See how his conviction was vacated in 2014 and his innocence was recognized.
Aug 21, 2018 · Did South Carolina execute 14-year-old George Stinney in 1944 and declare him innocent in 2014? Learn the facts and details of his conviction and execution, and how a judge overturned his case in 2014.
