George Stinney family: parents, siblings, mother, father
George Stinney Jr. was an African-American boy who was found guilty of killing two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7, in March 1944 in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina, when he was 14. George’s trial was later thrown out because it was unfair, but he was still put to…
George Stinney Jr. was an African-American boy who was found guilty of killing two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7, in March 1944 in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina, when he was 14.
George’s trial was later thrown out because it was unfair, but he was still put to death. In 2004, Stinney’s case was looked at again, and several people and the Northeastern University School of Law asked for a court review.
In 2014, seventy years after Stinney was put to death for murder, a South Carolina court ruled that he had not had a fair trial and was therefore wrongfully put to death.
A vacated judgment “leaves the parties in the same position as if there had been no trial at all.” This means that a vacated judgment is no longer valid.
George Stinney family: parents, siblings, mother, father
George’s father, George Stinney Sr., used to be a sharecropper and worked at the sawmill in the town. George’s mother was a cook at Alcolu’s school for black children. Her name was Aime.
George Stinney Jr. had two older brothers, John (half-brother) and Charles, and two younger sisters, Katherine and Aime.
George Stinney Jr., his parents, and his four siblings all lived in a three-room company house near the railroad tracks. This house was set aside for black families.
