The Youngest Boy Murdered By the State | The Retrial of George Stinney Jr. (2014)

On March 23, 1944, the bodies of Betty June Binnicker, 9 and Mary Emma Thames, 7, were found in a ditch in Alcolu, South Carolina. George Stinney Jr., 14 was arrested on suspicion of rape and murder along with his older brother John. George was questioned by police for hours without being allowed to talk with counsel or his family. The jury deliberated for 10 minutes before finding George guilty and sentencing him to death. On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr. was sent to the electric chair.
A citizen investigation led to a reopening of the case and on December 16, 2014 Judge Carmen Mullen of the South Carolina Circuit Court vacated George's conviction.
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