Inside The Execution Of 14-Year-Old George Stinney Jr., The Youngest Person In U.S. History To Face Capital Punishment
Inside The Execution Of 14-Year-Old George Stinney Jr., The Youngest Person In U.S. History To Face Capital Punishment
allthatsinteresting.com It Took 10 Minutes To Sentence This 14-Year-Old To Death — And 70 Years To Exonerate Him
Accused of murdering two white girls without a shred of physical evidence, George Stinney Jr. was charged, tried, convicted, and executed in a span of just 83 days.
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Naturally, he was black.
America, home of racism and homophobia.
He was executed in the Deep South in 1944, in the midst of the Jim Crow era.
America and the World are far from perfect but we are better now than in 1944. I hope we can keep improving fast enough.