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Feb 28, 2023 · Accused of murdering two white girls without a shred of physical evidence, George Stinney Jr. was charged, tried, convicted, and executed in a span of just 83 days.
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
Dec 18, 2014 · The 14-year-old black boy was sentenced to death for the murder of two white girls in a segregated mill town in South Carolina, in a trial that lasted less than three hours and reportedly bore no...
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 ...
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 person...
Dec 19, 2014 · An all-white jury deliberated for ten minutes before convicting George Stinney of murder, and the judge promptly sentenced the fourteen-year-old to death. He was executed on June 16, 1944, and remains the youngest person executed in the United States in the twentieth century.
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May 13, 2013 · George Junious Stinney was sent to death row at South Carolina State Penitentiary in the city of Columbia. He was executed in the electric chair only 81 days after he was found guilty at his sham of a trial.
