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George Stinney, de 14 años, le electrocutaron después de que lo acusaran de matar a dos niñas blancas. 70 años después, se demostró su inocencia. Esta historia inspiró la Milla Verde. Declaró en entrevistas: "Ha habido una persona que ha sido nombrada culpable, que ahora ha fallecido. Y la familia dijo que hubo una confesión en el lecho de muerte.
O #Adolescente George #Stinney Jr. de ascendência #africana foi a pessoa mais jovem #condenada à #morte no século 20 nos Estados Unidos. Ele tinha apenas 14 anos quando foi #executado em uma cadeira #elétrica. Durante o #julgamento, até o dia de sua #execução, ele sempre carregava uma #Bíblia nas #mãos, alegando #inocência. Ele foi acusado de matar duas meninas Brancas, Betty de 11 anos e Mary de 7, os #corpos foram encontrados perto da casa onde o #adolescente residia com seus pais. Naquela época, todos os #jurados eram #Brancos. O julgamento durou apenas 2 horas e a #sentença foi dada 10 minutos depois. Os pais da #criança foram #ameaçados e #impedidos de lhe dar #presentes no tribunal e depois expulsá-los daquela #cidade. Antes da execução, George passou 81 dias sem poder ver seus pais. Ele estava preso em uma cela solitária, a 80 km de sua cidade. Ele foi ouvido sozinho sem a presença de seus pais ou um #advogado. Ele foi eletrocutado com 5.380 volts na cabeça. 70 anos depois, sua inocência foi finalmente comprovada por um juiz da Carolina do Sul. A criança era #inocente, alguém fez de tudo para culpá-lo apenas por ser #negro. Stephen King se inspirou neste caso para fazer seu livro "The Green Mile", que foi levado ao cinema com a performance de Tom Hanks e Michael Clark Duncan interpretando John Coffey. #TheGreenMile Nome do #Filme: "A Espera de um #Milagre" ... https://www.instagram.com/p/B4i92VlnAEW/?igshid=1votlu9e5fvqd
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
by Terrell Jermaine Starr
George Junius Stinney Jr., the 14-year-old Black boy who died as the youngest person ever executed in the United States in the 20th century, would have been 83-years-old this Sunday.
Instead, his birthday will serve as a haunting reminder of why the death penalty needs to be abolished.
Youngest person executed in the US in the 20th Century
George Junius Stinney, Jr.,
[b. 1929 - d. 1944]
In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
The switch was pulled and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die.
Now, a community activist is fighting to clear Stinney’s name, saying the young boy couldn’t have killed two girls. George Frierson, a school board member and textile inspector, believes Stinney’s confession was coerced, and that his execution was just another injustice blacks suffered in Southern courtrooms in the first half of the 1900s.
In a couple of cases like Stinney’s, petitions are being made before parole boards and courts are being asked to overturn decisions made when society’s thumb was weighing the scales of justice against blacks. These requests are buoyed for the first time in generations by money, college degrees and sometimes clout.
“I hope we see more cases like this because it help brings a sense of closure. It’s symbolic,” said Howard University law professor Frank Wu. “It’s not just important for the individuals and their families. It’s important for the entire community. Not just for African Americans, but for whites and for our democracy as a whole. What these cases show is that it is possible to achieve justice.”
Some have already achieved justice. Earlier this year, syndicated radio host Tom Joyner successfully won a posthumous pardon for two great uncles who were executed in South Carolina.
A few years ago Lena Baker, a black Georgia maid sent to the electric chair for killing a white man, received a pardon after her family pointed out she likely killed the man because he was holding her against her will.
In the Stinney case, supporters want the state to admit that officials executed the wrong person in June 1944.
Stinney was accused of killing two white girls, 11 year old Betty June Binnicker and 8 year old Mary Emma Thames, by beating them with a railroad spike then dragging their bodies to a ditch near Acolu, about five miles from Manning in central South Carolina. The girls were found a day after they disappeared following a massive manhunt. Stinney was arrested a few hours later, white men in suits taking him away. Because of the risk of a lynching, Stinney was kept at a jail 50 miles away in Columbia.
Stinney’s father, who had helped look for the girls, was fired immediately and ordered to leave his home and the sawmill where he worked. His family was told to leave town prior to the trial to avoid further retribution. An atmosphere of lynch mob hysteria hung over the courthouse. Without family visits, the 14 year old had to endure the trial and death alone.
Frierson hasn’t been able to get the case out of his head since, carrying around a thick binder of old newspaper stories and documents, including an account from an execution witness.
The sheriff at the time said Stinney admitted to the killings, but there is only his word — no written record of the confession has been found. A lawyer helping Frierson with the case figures threats of mob violence and not being able to see his parents rattled the seventh- grader.
Attorney Steve McKenzie said he has even heard one account that says detectives offered the boy ice cream once they were done.
“You’ve got to know he was going to say whatever they wanted him to say,” McKenzie said.
The court appointed Stinney an attorney — a tax commissioner preparing for a Statehouse run. In all, the trial — from jury selection to a sentence of death — lasted one day. Records indicate 1,000 people crammed the courthouse. Blacks weren’t allowed inside.
The defense called no witnesses and never filed an appeal. No one challenged the sheriff’s recollection of the confession.
“As an attorney, it just kind of haunted me, just the way the judicial system worked to this boy’s disadvantage or disfavor. It did not protect him,” said McKenzie, who is preparing court papers to ask a judge to reopen the case.
Stinney’s official court record contains less than two dozen pages, several of them arrest warrants. There is no transcript of the trial.
The lack of records, while not unusual, makes it harder for people trying to get these old convictions overturned, Wu said.
But these old cases also can have a common thread.
“Some of these cases are so egregious, so extreme that when you look at it, the prosecution really has no case either,” Wu said. “It’s apparent from what you can see that someone was railroaded.”
And sometimes, police under pressure by frightened citizens jumped to conclusions rather than conducting a thorough investigation, Wu said.
Bluffton Today - 'Crusaders look to right Jim Crow justice wrongs' by Jeffrey Collins Photo: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
He was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old --- and the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th Century
George Junius Stinney, Jr.,
[b. 1929 - d. 1944]
In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
The switch was pulled and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die.
Now, a community activist is fighting to clear Stinney’s name, saying the young boy couldn’t have killed two girls. George Frierson, a school board member and textile inspector, believes Stinney’s confession was coerced, and that his execution was just another injustice blacks suffered in Southern courtrooms in the first half of the 1900s.
In a couple of cases like Stinney’s, petitions are being made before parole boards and courts are being asked to overturn decisions made when society’s thumb was weighing the scales of justice against blacks. These requests are buoyed for the first time in generations by money, college degrees and sometimes clout.
“I hope we see more cases like this because it help brings a sense of closure. It’s symbolic,” said Howard University law professor Frank Wu. “It’s not just important for the individuals and their families. It’s important for the entire community. Not just for African Americans, but for whites and for our democracy as a whole. What these cases show is that it is possible to achieve justice.”
Some have already achieved justice. Earlier this year, syndicated radio host Tom Joyner successfully won a posthumous pardon for two great uncles who were executed in South Carolina.
A few years ago Lena Baker, a black Georgia maid sent to the electric chair for killing a white man, received a pardon after her family pointed out she likely killed the man because he was holding her against her will.
In the Stinney case, supporters want the state to admit that officials executed the wrong person in June 1944.
Stinney was accused of killing two white girls, 11 year old Betty June Binnicker and 8 year old Mary Emma Thames, by beating them with a railroad spike then dragging their bodies to a ditch near Acolu, about five miles from Manning in central South Carolina. The girls were found a day after they disappeared following a massive manhunt. Stinney was arrested a few hours later, white men in suits taking him away. Because of the risk of a lynching, Stinney was kept at a jail 50 miles away in Columbia.
Stinney’s father, who had helped look for the girls, was fired immediately and ordered to leave his home and the sawmill where he worked. His family was told to leave town prior to the trial to avoid further retribution. An atmosphere of lynch mob hysteria hung over the courthouse. Without family visits, the 14 year old had to endure the trial and death alone.
Frierson hasn’t been able to get the case out of his head since, carrying around a thick binder of old newspaper stories and documents, including an account from an execution witness.
The sheriff at the time said Stinney admitted to the killings, but there is only his word — no written record of the confession has been found. A lawyer helping Frierson with the case figures threats of mob violence and not being able to see his parents rattled the seventh- grader.
Attorney Steve McKenzie said he has even heard one account that says detectives offered the boy ice cream once they were done.
“You’ve got to know he was going to say whatever they wanted him to say,” McKenzie said.
The court appointed Stinney an attorney — a tax commissioner preparing for a Statehouse run. In all, the trial — from jury selection to a sentence of death — lasted one day. Records indicate 1,000 people crammed the courthouse. Blacks weren’t allowed inside.
The defense called no witnesses and never filed an appeal. No one challenged the sheriff’s recollection of the confession.
“As an attorney, it just kind of haunted me, just the way the judicial system worked to this boy’s disadvantage or disfavor. It did not protect him,” said McKenzie, who is preparing court papers to ask a judge to reopen the case.
Stinney’s official court record contains less than two dozen pages, several of them arrest warrants. There is no transcript of the trial.
The lack of records, while not unusual, makes it harder for people trying to get these old convictions overturned, Wu said.
But these old cases also can have a common thread.
“Some of these cases are so egregious, so extreme that when you look at it, the prosecution really has no case either,” Wu said. “It’s apparent from what you can see that someone was railroaded.”
And sometimes, police under pressure by frightened citizens jumped to conclusions rather than conducting a thorough investigation, Wu said.
Bluffton Today - 'Crusaders look to right Jim Crow justice wrongs' by Jeffrey Collins Photo: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
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