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 ...
TULSA, Okla. — Fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. was so small that officials stacked books to raise him high enough for the electric chair. The state of South Carolina wrongfully executed him, ...
George Stinney was fourteen years old when he was arrested for the murder of Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames in Alcolu, South Carolina. He is one of the youngest Americans sentenced to death ...