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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 Carolina.
The death penalty for juveniles in the United States was first applied in 1642. ... 1929), was George Stinney, who was electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 ...
With South Carolina set to resume executions Friday for the first time since 2011, the cruel and unusual case of George Stinney is worth revisiting. He is not the youngest person ever to be executed.
George Stinney Jr. BY HARRIET MCLEOD (Reuters) - Attorneys in South Carolina say they have fresh evidence that warrants a new trial in the case of a 14-year-old black teenager put to death nearly ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v.
In 1944, 14-year-old African-American George Stinney Jr. was convicted of murdering two white girls. He was the youngest person in the United States to be sentenced to death. [218] Stinney was executed by electrocution within 80 days of the murders.
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106.
At the request of death penalty commission chairman Gerry, ... On June 16, 1944, an African-American teenager, 14-year-old George Stinney, ...