In March 1944, deep in the Jim Crow South, police came for 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. His parents weren’t at home. His little sister was hiding in the family’s chicken coop behind the ...

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 ...

And the defeated look on his face suggests he was well aware of his destiny. The boy was George Junius Stinney Jr., 14, who was accused of killing two white girls 70 years ago in the Jim Crow ...

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George Stinney, Jr. was barely a teenager, black and was accused of murdering two young white girls in Alcolu, just outside of Manning in Clarendon county. It rocked the small town at the time and ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - On December 18, 2014 Judge Carmen Mullen threw out the conviction George Stinney Jr, a 14-year-old South Carolina teen who was convicted of killing an two girls 70 years ago.

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 ...

theGRIO REPORT - On June 16, 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr. became the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century. Wednesday, a South Carolina judge vacated Stinney's ...