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George Stinney

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Black American wrongfully convicted of murder (1929-1944)

United StatesLived 1929 to 1944 · aged 14
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George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls - 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames - in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.

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George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls - 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames - in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death on a single day in April 1944 and then executed by electric chair on June 16, 1944, after Governor Olin D. Johnston refused to grant him clemency.

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United States
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Lived 1929 to 1944 · aged 14
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