14 year old George Stinney Jnr., who was executed 70 years ago for allegedly beating two young white girls to death in Alcolu, South Carolina, was finally exonerated by a judge on Wednesday Dec 17th, who threw out his murder conviction.
George was officially the youngest to be executed in the U.S. He died in 1944, by seating on a phone book in the electric chair after he was found guilty of beating the girls, 11 and 8 years old with a railroad spike. His trial lasted for three hours and it took the a jury of all white people just 10 minutes to find him guilty - just 3 months after the girls were found murdered.
However, George was arrested after he confessed to the crime, but his older sister always maintained that George was coerced into confessing and couldn't have committed the murder because he was with her the day of the murder. Civil rights advocates have been trying for years to clear George Stinney Jnr's name. They managed to get the case reopened and yesterday morning, Judge Carmen Mullins tossed the murder conviction.
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