Thread: True Story: George Stinny

America, America... What have you done?





George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was an African-American wrongfully convicted of murder in 1944 in his home town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He is one of the youngest persons in the United States in the 20th-century to be sentenced to death and to be executed, being 14 years old at the time of his execution.

Stinney was convicted in less than 10 minutes, during a one-day trial, by an all-white jury^[2] of the first-degree murder of two white girls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames. After being arrested, Stinney was said to have confessed to the crime.^[3][4] There was no written record of his confession apart from notes provided by an investigating deputy,^[5] and no transcript was recorded of the brief trial. He was denied appeal and executed by electric chair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney

Horrible.