An opera spotlighting the agony of the injustice around wrongfully accused George Junius Stinney Jr. In 1944, a 14-year-old Black boy named George Junius Stinney Jr. was executed. Wrongfully accused ...
The Root: SC Teen George Stinney Jr. Exonerated 70 Years After Execution
It’s been 70 years since George Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old South Carolina boy, faced the electric chair for the 1944 murders of two young white girls in Alcolu, but his name has finally been cleared ...
Alcolu, SC (WLTX) -- A 14-year-old boy was sent to a South Carolina electric chair in 1944. George Stinney, Jr. was barely a teenager, black and was accused of murdering two young white girls in ...
USA Today: George Stinney Jr., 14, executed in 1944 after sham trial in South Carolina
George Stinney Jr., 14, executed in 1944 after sham trial in South Carolina
JD Supra: Due Process in South Carolina Then and Now: Lessons from George Stinney's Case
George Stinney was fourteen years old when he was arrested for the murder of Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames in Alcolu, South Carolina. He is one of the youngest Americans sentenced to death ...
Due Process in South Carolina Then and Now: Lessons from George Stinney's Case
Alcolu, SC(WLTX)-- Lawyers arguing for George Stinney, Jr.'s innocence willbring their case before a judge Tuesday morning. George Stinney, Jr. was executed in South Carolina when he was just 14-years ...
Columbia, SC (WLTX) - On Judge Carmen Mullen threw out the conviction George Stinney Jr, a 14-year-old South Carolina teen who was convicted of killing an two girls 70 years ago. In ...