George Stinney Jr., of Alcolu, is one of 20 Black teenagers South Carolina has executed. He was electrocuted in 1944 at age 14. A judge overturned his conviction 70 years later. Provided photo George ...

An opera spotlighting the agony of the injustice around wrongfully accused George Junius Stinney Jr. In 1944, a 14-year-old Black boy named George Junius Stinney Jr. was executed. Wrongfully accused ...

Alcolu, SC (WLTX) -- A 14-year-old boy was sent to a South Carolina electric chair in 1944. George Stinney, Jr. was barely a teenager, black and was accused of murdering two young white girls in ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - On December 18, 2014 Judge Carmen Mullen threw out the conviction George Stinney Jr, a 14-year-old South Carolina teen who was convicted of killing an two girls 70 years ago. In ...

When 14-year-old George Stinney was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in a single afternoon for the murders of two white girls in 1944, he had no family with him in the rural South Carolina ...