George Stinney cause of death
George Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and executed for the March 1944 murders of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. George was found guilty, given…
George Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and executed for the March 1944 murders of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. George was found guilty, given the death penalty, and put to death by an electric chair in June 1944, making him the 20th century’s youngest American to receive a death sentence and be put to death.
In 2004, Stinney’s case was revisited, and a number of people, including the Northeastern University School of Law, requested a judicial review. Seventy years after Stinney was put to death, his murder conviction was overturned in 2014 after a South Carolina court ruled that he had not received a fair trial and had been wrongfully put to death. A vacated judgment “puts the parties in the position of having no trial at all; thus, a vacated judgment has no further force or effect.”
George Stinney’s cause of death
In June 1944, George Stinney was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by an electric chair, making George the youngest American with an exact birth date to be sentenced to death and executed in the twentieth century.