George Stinney, 14
“George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial in 2014, of murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June 1944. Stinney is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed since Hannah Ocuish in 1786.[1]
A re-examination of the Stinney case began in 2004, and several individuals and the Northeastern University School of Law sought a judicial review. Stinney's conviction was overturned in 2014, seventy years after he was executed, when a court ruled that he had not received a fair trial.”
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