NEVER FORGET: Meet the Youngest Person Ever Executed in US
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http://straightfromthea.com/2011/09/28/george-junius-stinney-jr/
NEVER HEARD OF HIM UNTIL YESTERDAY.
His name is George Junius Stinney, Jr. [b. 1929 - d. 1944], he was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old when he was executed — he and holds the title of being the youngest person ever executed in the United States in the 20th Century.
In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked the 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair.
Standing only 5′ 1″ and weighing a mere 95 pounds, the straps of the chair didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
But that didn’t matter. The switch was pulled anyway and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they sat and watched the youngest person ever executed in the United States in the past century die.
Stinney was accused of killing two white girls, 11 year old Betty June Binnicker and 8 year old Mary Emma Thames, by beating them with a railroad spike then dragging their bodies to a ditch near Acolu, about five miles from Manning in central South Carolina.
The girls were found a day after they disappeared following a massive manhunt. Stinney was arrested a few hours later when white men in suits came and took him away. Because of the risk of a lynching, Stinney was kept at a jail 50 miles away in Columbia, SC.
Stinney’s father, who had helped look for the girls, was fired immediately and ordered to leave his home and the sawmill where he worked. His family was told to leave town prior to the trial to avoid further retribution. An atmosphere of lynch mob hysteria hung over the courthouse.
Without family visits, the 14 year old had to endure the trial and death alone
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Good drop Dro
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Damn.......
"What more can I say" -
Did he do it?
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At least he took 2 white ? with him...
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The trial lasted three hours, and the all-white jury deliberated for 10 minutes before sentencing George Stinney to death in the electric chair.
At Stinney's execution six weeks later, the guards had difficulty strapping him to the electric chair (he was 5' 1" and weighed just over 90 pounds). During the electrocution, the jolt shook the adult-sized mask from his head.
all he said was that he seen the girls.. and he was locked up. There was no written confessions.. no evidence of guilt. not physical evidence.. He was offered Icream after the confession -
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Buddy got that mean mug on doe!... Rip lil guy!
Dam, his story is just as bad as emmit till's.... -
ether-i-am wrote: »ain't no way in hell that little boy can drag 2 dead white girls 5 miles away!
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You late on this Dro, smh
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playmaker88 wrote: »Not everyone was alive in 44 like you
nYUUUUUGA! -
if you gotta go you gotta go
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i thought lil ? did it just by looking at the mugshot then I read the story
sounds like The Green Mile -
playmaker88 wrote: »not everyone was alive in 44 like you
nyuuuuuga!king hassan wrote: »aw damn lmao, good one niggaro
ahhhh he got yo cho ass! Hahaha
good one! Hahahaha... -
According to the confession, Stinney (90 lbs, 5'1") wanted to "have sex with" 11 year old Betty June Binnicker and could not do so until her companion, Mary Emma Thames, age 8, was removed from the scene; thus he decided to ? Mary Emma
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r.i.p..........
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what kind of ? up ? is this...
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Does it ? matter if he did it???? SMH.
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ether-i-am wrote: »Ain't no way in hell that little boy can drag 2 dead white girls 5 miles away!
His daddy probably did it.
They didn't say he dragged the body 5 miles. -
I remember a poster had that lil' dudes mugshot as their avi a while back.
their sig was something like, "The originator of the HOH movement..." and it had a Wikipedia link to the story. -
mryounggun wrote: »Does it ? matter if he did it???? SMH.
i know right...he was ? 14 idiots thats the point -
Anti_matter wrote: »I remember a poster had that lil' dudes mugshot as their avi a while back.
their sig was something like, "The originator of the HOH movement..." and it had a Wikipedia link to the story.
damn I remember that, damn I kept saying that mug shot looked familiar -
Anti_matter wrote: »I remember a poster had that lil' dudes mugshot as their avi a while back.
their sig was something like, "The originator of the HOH movement..." and it had a Wikipedia link to the story.
oh wow lol -
If he really did do it, I don't really care about this story at all, and I'm not bothered by it.