COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in the killings of two white girls in a segregated mill town, a judge threw out the conviction, saying the state committed a great injustice.
His name was George Stinney.
His family has been trying to get him a new trial for decades.
There will not be a new trial. But the conviction has been overturn, as the quote from Washington Post story makes clear, there was no doubt in the mind of the judge who issued the ruling about how wrong what happened was.
George Stinney was arrested, convicted of murder in a one-day trial and executed in 1944 — all in the span of about three months and without an appeal. The speed in which the state meted out justice against the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century was shocking and extremely unfair, Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen wrote in her ruling Wednesday.
I can think of no greater injustice,” Mullen wrote.this brings me back to the republican absurdity of taking "THEIR" country back as i've said before it never left in the recent news we hear of a hanging of a Black teen, have they already started the atrocities akin to taking "THEIR" country back? all of a sudden open season on Blacks is not so far fetched. are they back no because they never left. it's like that line in the movie "the usual suspects", "the greatest thing the devil ever did was to convince people he didn't exist" paraphrased. recognize
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