"BECAUSE HE IS BLACK" What happens to the minority when justice is neglected and prejudice prevails? GEORGE JUNIUS STINNEY Jr. He was only 14 years old yet, died the death of a 40 years. What really happened to him, why was he executed? #
WE ALL SHOULD AGREE WITH ME THAT PREJUDICE IS ALSO A CRIME George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was a 14 year old African-American convicted of murder as a result of a racially-biased and discriminatory trial in 1944 in his home town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He is the youngest person in the United States in the 20th-century to be sentenced to death and to be executed. George Stinney Stinney's mug shot BornGeorge Junius Stinney, Jr. October 21, 1929 Pinewood, South Carolina, United StatesDiedJune 16, 1944 (aged 14) Columbia, South Carolina, United StatesCriminal penaltyDeath by electric chairCriminal status Executed (1944)Conviction vacated (2014) Conviction(s)First-degree murder (vacated) Stinney was convicted in less than 10 minutes, during a one-day trial, by an all-white jury[2] of the first-degree murder of two whitegirls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames. Af...
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