South Carolina Penitentiary, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Cause of death
Execution by electrocution
Resting place
Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Paxville, South Carolina, U.S.
Monuments
Headstone memorial in Alcolu[1]
Three memorial crosses dedicated to Stinney and other two victims where the bodies were found[2]
Known for
Being wrongfully executed
Criminal status
Executed (June 16, 1944; 79 years ago (1944-06-16))
Conviction vacated (December 16, 2014)
Conviction(s)
Murder (posthumously vacated)
Criminal penalty
Death
Date apprehended
March 23, 1944
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by electric chair in June 1944, thus becoming the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be both sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century.[3]
A re-examination of Stinney's case began in 2004, and several individuals and the Northeastern University School of Law sought a judicial review. Stinney's murder conviction was vacated in 2014, seventy years after he was executed, with a South Carolina court ruling that he had not received a fair trial, and was thus wrongfully executed.[4][5]
^"George Stinney memorial unveiled in Alcolu". June 15, 2014.
^"New details emerge about an alternate suspect in Alcolu girls' murders". March 28, 2018.
^Banner, Stuart (March 5, 2005). "When Killing a Juvenile Was Routine". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 12, 2016.
^"70 years later, George Stinney's conviction vacated". The State.
^"George Stinney, 14-year-old convicted of '44 murder, exonerated". WIS TV. December 17, 2014. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
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