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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 ...
28 Ιαν 2024 · In his harrowing final moments, Stinney courageously expressed his innocence, proclaiming, “I didn’t do it! I love my parents. Don’t let them kill me!” These devastating last words serve as a chilling reminder of the flawed system that failed to protect a young life.
The first book to fully explore the events leading to Stinney's death, The Child in the Electric Chair offers a compelling narrative with a meticulously researched analysis of the world in which Stinney lived—the era of lynching, segregation, and racist assumptions about Black Americans.
11 Δεκ 2013 · Police said their killer used a railroad spike, and for the culprit they fingered a 14-year-old black boy named George Stinney Jr., whom a witness said had been seen talking to the girls earlier that day.
28 Φεβ 2023 · The youngest person in the United States to ever be put to death in the electric chair was an African-American 14-year-old named George Stinney Jr. He was executed in the Deep South in 1944, in the midst of the Jim Crow era.
The message in all of them: commute George Stinney’s death sentence to life in prison or, at the very least, stay the execution until the crime was more fully investigated.
14 Ιουν 2024 · June 16, 2024, marks 80 years since South Carolina executed 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. Historical reports indicate that on March 24, 1944, Mr. Stinney and his younger sister, Aime, were playing outside when two white girls approached them, asking where they could find a particular flower.
