Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1944, South Carolina executed 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. after a 10-minute trial. Decades later, a judge declared his ...
George Stinney Jr. was only 14 when he was accused of killing two young girls in South Carolina. The case moved fast, with an alleged confession that was never properly documented and a trial that ...
Alcolu, SC (WLTX) -- A 14-year-old boy was sent to a South Carolina electric chair in 1944. George Stinney, Jr. was barely a teenager, black and was accused of murdering two young white girls in ...
It’s been 70 years since George Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old South Carolina boy, faced the electric chair for the 1944 murders of two young white girls in Alcolu, but his name has finally been cleared ...
SUMTER - This week's hearing about whether 14-year-old George Stinney received a fair trial in 1944 lasted several times longer than his original trial, where he was found guilty of murdering two ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys hope to bring a civil-rights lawsuit in the case of a Black teenager electrocuted more than 70 years ago for the killings of two white girls in a segregated South ...
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Manning, SC (WLTX) - George Stinney supporters say the young man wasn't treated fairly when questioned about the murders; however, family members of the victims don't see it that way. Wednesdayis ...