Aime Ruffner recalled helping her 14-year-old brother, George Stinney Jr., graze the family cow one day in March 1944 in the tiny South Carolina town of Alcolu, deep in the Jim Crow South.

Stinney's now-76-year-old sister Aime Ruffner, who lives in Newark ... but also after the arrest George Stinney Sr. was fired from his job at the lumber mill. "My entire family had to move ...

Both Katherine Stinney Robinson and Aime Stinney Ruffner testified that their older brother was innocent. George Stinney, then only 14, was put to death just 83 days after his arrest for the ...

At the time, both her parents, George Stinney, Sr. and Amie Stinney were away from the home, she said. "(The police) were looking for someone to blame it on, so they used my brother as a scapegoat ...

“I never saw him again until he was in his casket,” said Aime. “That is something I will always see in my memories. His face was burned.” When George Stinney Jr. was executed for the ...

t=0 His name was George Junius Stinney Jr ... confession and is unreliable.” Burke Sr. was also the boss of the local lumber company where Stinney’s father worked (and was subsequently ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - On December 18, 2014 Judge Carmen Mullen threw out the conviction George Stinney Jr ... she wrote. One of Stinney's sisters, Aime Ruffer, who said she was with her brother ...

The judgment against George Stinney, the youngest person to be executed by an American state since the 1800s, effectively exonerates the boy, said family attorney Matt Burgess. A black teen in the ...

Mrs. Stinney prayed furiously. They didn’t have any money. What could do they do? Whatever happens to George, his father said, is in God’s hands now. At that point, George Burke Sr.

George Stinney Jr., 14, was convicted of the grisly murders of Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7, in Alcolu, S.C. The girls had disappeared in March 1944 while riding their ...