George Stinney - Wikipedia
WEBHe was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by electric chair in June 1944, thus becoming the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be both sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century. [3]
The True Story Of George Stinney Jr. And His Brutal Execution
WEBFeb 28, 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.
South Carolina used electric chair to execute George Stinney Jr., …
WEBMay 8, 2021 — South Carolina may bring back electric chair, once used to execute a 14-year-old boy later exonerated George Stinney Jr.’s mug shot when he was arrested in 1944. The 5-foot-1, 90-pound boy was...
S.C. Judge Says 1944 Execution Of 14-Year-Old Boy Was Wrong
WEBDec 18, 2014 — Landov. An African-American boy, George Stinney Jr., who was executed at age 14 in the killing of two young white girls has been exonerated in South Carolina, 70 years after he became the...
Court Acknowledges Wrongful Execution of 14-Year Old George Stinney
WEBDec 19, 2014 — When George was executed, he was so small that the straps of South Carolina’s electric chair didn’t fit him properly, and state officials had him sit on a book for his electrocution.
Remembering the Execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, 80 …
WEBJun 14, 2024 — Stinney was charged with capital murder and rape, tried, convicted, and executed in South Carolina’s electric chair in just under three months. Just days after Mr. Stinney’s arrest, his father was fired from his job and the family was forced to flee town because of threats of violence.
US judge overturns 1940s conviction of executed boy - BBC News
WEBDec 18, 2014 — According to contemporary accounts, Stinney's size - he weighed 95lb (43kg) and stood about 5ft 2in (1.57m) tall - meant he was too small for the straps of the electric chair, and an...
'83 Days': The true story of America's youngest death row execution
WEBJan 21, 2019 — The film follows the last days of George Stinney Jr., a black teenager executed by electric chair in 1944 after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering two young white girls in South...
Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr …
WEBDec 1, 2022 — With no funds for an appeal, Stinney died in the state's electric chair eighty-three days after he was charged with the crime—one of the youngest juveniles executed in the twentieth century.
George Stinney: After 70 years, justice in sight for boy America …
WEBJan 22, 2014 — George Stinney: After 70 years, justice in sight for boy America sent to electric chair. George Stinney was 14 when executed for a crime his family says he didn’t commit. A retrial may...