The Execution of George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 June 16, 1944) was an AfricanAmerican youth who at a flawed trial was convicted at age 14 of murder in 1944 in his home town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was the youngest person in the United States in the 20thcentury to be sentenced to death and to be Stinney was convicted in 1944 in a oneday trial2 of the firstdegree murder of two white girls: 11yearold Betty June Binnicker and 8yearold Mary Emma Thames. After being arrested, Stinney w
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