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The execution of George Stinney was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, South Carolina, on June 16, 1944. At 7:30 p.m., Stinney walked to the execution chamber with a Bible under his arm. Standing 5’1″ and weighing just over 90 pounds, he was small for his age, which presented difficulties in securing him to the frame holding the electrodes. Neither did the state’s adult-sized face-mask fit Stinney; his convulsing exposed his face to witnesses as the mask slipped free. Stinney was declared dead within four minutes of the initial electrocution From the time of the murders until Stinney’s execution, eighty one days had passed.
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6 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Woo Hoo! South Carolina is first at something!
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Pretty tragic how swiftly the justice system moved in that case. Jury selection at 10:00 a.m., and a guilty verdict just after 5:00 p.m. the same day, with the execution taking place three weeks later. The lawyer didn’t even cross-examine witnesses or ask for an appeal.
I wonder how it would have been handled if the defendant had been white and the victims had been black. Wait, no I don’t.
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In case you don’t want to RTFA, he was 14 when he was executed.
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Thanks, Rick.
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You’re welcome
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I’m supposed to say here “Oh, how we came a long way since then. But no. Instead I’m worried that we’re going to go back there. This is fucked and this has been forgotten and it’s fucked that it has been forgotten.
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