The haunting mug shot of George Stinney – that now iconic, grainy, black-and-white photo of a doomed 14-year-old boy wearing prison stripes – is a window on South Carolina’s painful past.
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Read More »HILTON HEAD ISLAND (AP) — Fourteenth Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen could have waved off George Stinney’s case when it landed on her docket last January, citing the passage of 70 years since the 14-year-old’s conviction and execution in Clarendon County. ...
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Read More »Lawyers finally got the chance to argue on behalf of George Stinney, 70 years after the 14-year-old black boy was sent to the electric chair for killing two white girls in South Carolina.
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Read More »A hearing that supporters say could exonerate a 14-year-old boy executed in 1944 for the killings of two girls will likely take place in the next month, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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