#georgestinney

[aapproach]

#GeorgeStinney _________________ Reposted from @AfricanArchives Twitter account. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQNGCCmr_Z8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hotsexcoldwine1023]

They used a Bible as the booster seat😭😭😭😭😭 Repost from @witchdoctorpoet • This young black child died 76 years ago on this day - June 16th. He was wrongfully accused of killing two whites girls. The proceeding took one day and the his trial had an all white jury that took less then 10 minutes to deliberate and give Stinney a guilty verdict. He was so small, that they had to use a BIBLE as a booster seat in order for him to fit on the electric chair. Can you imagine the fear he felt? “Stinney was declared dead after eight minutes. His teeth were smoking and he had one eye missing”. @africanarchives #georgestinney #rip https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgr1jSBm5x/?igshid=19x2oxjyffngd

[dscola]

Still fights the same injustices. On this date in 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. became the youngest person in the great U.S.A. executed. George Stinney was a 14 year old black boy convicted of murder as a result of a racially-biased and discriminatory trial in 1944 in his home town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was so small, he had to be sat on his own bible so that the head mount could reach his head. #maga #georgestinney #thingstheydontteachyou #makebeingblackinamericalegal #blackhidstory #neverforget #treasureourown #americatheugly #themorethingschange https://www.instagram.com/p/CBggKhaj5WV/?igshid=1c924ugjovvo3

[impermanent-art]

Portrait of George Stinney by Hopare. Cabbagetown, Atlanta. Stinney was convicted and sent to the electric chair in 1944 at age 14 for the murder of two white girls. The courts refused to hear his appeal. 70 years later his conviction was overturned. He is the youngest American ever to be sentenced to death and executed.

[petr198]

The execution of George Stinney, 1944. George Junius Stinney Jr. is the youngest man executed in the United States in the 20th century. At the time of execution he was 14 years old and 7 months old. He was convicted of killing two girls. The sentence was canceled in 2014, 70 years after the execution. Stinney was executed in South Carolina in a prison in Columbia, June 16, 1944, at 7:30 in an electric chair. Stinney was too short (about 155 cm) to sit on a chair, and on the seat he had to put a bible, which he was allowed to take with him to the cell at the time of the trial. 🔹Казнь Джорджа Стинни, 1944 год. Джордж Джуниус Стинни-младший — самый юный человек, казнённый в США в XX веке. На момент казни ему было 14 лет и 7 месяцев. Был осуждён за убийство двух девочек. Приговор был отменён в 2014 году, через 70 лет после казни. Казнь Стинни осуществлена в Южной Каролине в тюрьме в Колумбии, 16 июня 1944 года, в 7:30 на электрическом стуле. Стинни был слишком мал ростом (около 155 см) для того, чтобы сесть на стул, и на сиденье ему пришлось подложить библию, которую ему было разрешено взять с собой в камеру и на время проведения судебного разбирательства.🔹 #execution #GeorgeStinney #George #Stinney #bible #UnitedStates #usa https://www.instagram.com/p/B3qZa2SIZ6i/?igshid=12y4lq0qs7wfr

[brandonimhotep]

George Stinney Jr. was unfairly convicted and executed at age 14 of the murder of two white girls ages 7 and 11 in 1944 in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June of that year, still only 14. He is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed. Stinney was put on trial and then executed within three months of the killings. His trial lasted three hours, and a jury of 12 white men took 10 minutes to find him guilty. His conviction was overturned in 2014 when a court ruled that he had not received a fair trial. Judge Mullen vacated Stinney’s conviction some 70 years after his death. Her rationale (set out in detail in her ruling) was that Stinney’s constitutional right to due process had been violated on multiple grounds: his confession was likely coerced; his lawyer did woefully little to defend him, especially by failing to call witnesses on his behalf or to appeal his conviction; the selection of the jury did not mitigate against the possibility of racial prejudice playing a role in the verdict; and the execution of a 14-year-old child in and of itself constituted “cruel and unusual punishment.” #georgestinney #blackhistory #unfair #execution #death #deathpenalty #racism #southcarolina #thisisamerica #blackboyjoy #blackgirlmagic https://www.instagram.com/p/B12zwkwgSvj/?igshid=funn63yrgbm7

[dscola]

75 years ago, George Junius Stinney Jr. became the youngest person in the great U.S.A. executed. George Stinney was a 14 year old black boy convicted of murder as a result of a racially-biased and discriminatory trial in 1944 in his home town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was so small, he had to be sat on his own bible so that the head mount could reach his head. #maga #georgestinney #thingstheydontteachyou #makebeingblackinamericalegal #blackhidstory #neverforget #treasureourown #americatheugly #themorethingschange https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz-V6wBlASF/?igshid=1g0je5if6vbmd

[ripopentheuniverse]

WHEW. When I tell you that art can be transformative?! #deborahroberts #georgestinney #caam (at California African American Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByneW3khjv2/?igshid=7uzrjyebyke4