Is George Stinney Still Alive Or Dead?
George Stinney was born on October 21, 1929, in Sumter, South Carolina, USA. In March 1944, at the age of 14, George Stinney was convicted and executed for the murders of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7. George Stinney was found guilty, given the death penalty, and put to…
George Stinney was born on October 21, 1929, in Sumter, South Carolina, USA. In March 1944, at the age of 14, George Stinney was convicted and executed for the murders of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7. George Stinney was found guilty, given the death penalty, and put to death by the electric chair in June 1944, making him the 20th century’s youngest American to receive a death sentence and be put to death.
George Stinney was living in Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, with his father, George Stinney Sr. (1902-1965), mother, Aimé (1907-1989), brothers John, 17, and Charles, 12, and sisters Katherine, 10, and Aimé, 7. Stinney’s father worked at a sawmill in town, and the family lived in company housing. Alcolu was a small, working-class mill town divided by railroad tracks between white and black neighbourhoods. The town looked like any other small Southern town at the time. There was little interaction between white and black residents due to segregated schools and churches.
Is George Stinney Still Alive Or Dead?
In June 1944, George Stinney was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by an electric chair.
