The Case of George Stinney that shocked the USA in the mid 20th Century Join this channel to get access to perks: / @briefcaseofficial Please remember to subscribe and hit the bell icon as well as ...

The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, at least 200 people who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated. For ...

The company's "East Meets Midwest" theme will showcase Asian American and Pacific Islander artists across three productions.

Opera Grand Rapids (OGR) has announced its trailblazing 2025-2026 season during the “A Night with the Opera: Hip Opera” gala, ...

George Stinney Jr was sent to the electric chair in 1944. He had been tried for the murder of two young girls, but when the case was reviewed by a court in South Carolina in 2014 his conviction ...

An opera spotlighting the agony of the injustice around wrongfully accused George Junius Stinney Jr. In 1944, a 14-year-old Black boy named George Junius Stinney Jr. was executed. Wrongfully ...

An American Execution” focuses on the end of George Stinney, Jr.’s short life. The 14-year-old black boy was executed by electric chair in 1944, about three months after a jury convicted him ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Opera Grand Rapids will soon present Stinney: An American Execution at the Peter Martin Wege Theatre. The opera company says three performances are scheduled for Feb. 25 ...

A circuit court judge wrote in their ruling that “fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process exist in the 1944 prosecution of George Stinney, Jr.” McKnight, a lawyer, said he was ...

History doesn’t say whether George Stinney Jr. cried during his two-hour murder trial. No one knows if any lawyer, including his own, referred to him repeatedly as “a kid” to curry sympathy ...