A judge is set to hear an appeal for a new trial in the case of a black 14-year-old who was executed in South Carolina in 1944 for killing two white girls. George Stinney, a black 14-year-old, was convicted by a white jury which deliberated for 10 minutes. He was executed in 1944 by electrocution just 84 days after the two white girls were killed in South Carolina. No official records of the trial exist. The new witnesses include a cell mate of Stinney, who said the teenager told him he had been forced to confess, as well as a pathologist who recently reviewed the case and found problems with the conclusions of the autopsy. Is 14 not too young to go to the electric chair? RIP George Stinney. May justice be served. Always.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:26:22 +0000
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