In 1944, George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina at age 14. He was accused of bludgeoning two white girls to death and convicted by an all-white jury in a ...

In 1944, George Stinney Jr., a young black teenager, was executed at the age of 14. Wrongfully accused of the rape and murder of two white girls, George became the youngest person legally executed ...

George Stinney jr was the typical 14-year-old living in ... the sheriff announced the arrest and said that "George Junius" had confessed and led officers to "a hidden piece of iron.

He stood just 5ft 1in, weighing only 95 pounds and when police led George Junius Stinney to the death chamber in 1944 he was, at the age of 14, the youngest person to be executed in the U.S. He was so ...

"Stinney: An American Execution" spotlights the agony of the injustice of the 1944 wrongful execution of George Stinney Jr., the youngest person to be legally executed in America.