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Post by stilltrucking » December 18th, 2014, 9:09 am

Judge Vacates Conviction in 1944 Execution
George Junius Stinney, Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.[1]

Stinney, an African-American youth from South Carolina, was convicted in a two-hour trial[2] of the first-degree murder of two pre-teen white girls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker, and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames. However, no physical evidence existed in the case, and the sole evidence against Stinney was the circumstantial fact that the girls had spoken with Stinney and his sister shortly before their murder, and the testimony of three police officers that Stinney had confessed. He was executed by electric chair.

Since Stinney's conviction and execution, the question of his guilt, the validity of his confession, and the judicial process leading to his execution have been criticized as "suspicious at best and a miscarriage of justice at worst."[3]

On December 17, 2014, his conviction was posthumously vacated.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney
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Re: coram nobis

Post by e_dog » December 25th, 2014, 2:14 am

sad that he won't walk free.


thanks fer postin this stilltru'.
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