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South Carolina electrocuted a 14 yr old in 1944.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:50 pm
I don't recall this being in any history class I've ever taken in nearly 20 years of education.
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Cliffs.
South Carolina judge overturned the conviction today. Black teenager arrested, tried, convicted, executed in under 3 months in 1944 by all white, male jury and denied appeals by South Carolina. Kid was 14 and under 100 lbs. Conviction was based on testimony that he was seen picking flowers with the girls earlier in the day.
1944 is not that long ago. Kinda sickening, and now a convicted murderer will sit on death row for 25 years and die of natural causes. We've got to find some middle ground.
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Cliffs.
South Carolina judge overturned the conviction today. Black teenager arrested, tried, convicted, executed in under 3 months in 1944 by all white, male jury and denied appeals by South Carolina. Kid was 14 and under 100 lbs. Conviction was based on testimony that he was seen picking flowers with the girls earlier in the day.
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Stinney was arrested after witnesses said they saw him picking flowers with the girls.
He admitted to the crime after being separated from his parents and interrogated by police.
After that, the justice system moved at lightening speed as he was tried in just one day and found guilty by an all-male, all-white jury who deliberated for less than 10 minutes.
Stinney was denied appeal and just three months after the girls' bodies were found, he became the youngest person in the twentieth century to be executed.
The 95-pound teen was so small he had to be propped up on a phone book on the electric chair, and one of the electrodes was too big for his leg.
1944 is not that long ago. Kinda sickening, and now a convicted murderer will sit on death row for 25 years and die of natural causes. We've got to find some middle ground.
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Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:52 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Damn, I was just about to turn in for the night. Hold on, let me grab my riot beanie...
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:53 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
What was the charge? Did everyone just freak out because they heard black guy, flower, young white girls and jumped to assumptions? 
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:54 pm to GRTiger
Burn this bitch down.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:54 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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South Carolina judge overturned the conviction today.
Someone let the boy know.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:55 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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Stinney was arrested
I have read too much today and I am tired. I read his name as "Stimey".
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:55 pm to LSUsuperfresh
I assume the girls ended up dead.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:55 pm to LSUsuperfresh
The Greatest Generation ladies and gentlemen
This post was edited on 12/17/14 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:55 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Yeah, man, shite happened back then.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:56 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
This is what he requested and was served as his last meal
Seriously, though..that's terrible
Seriously, though..that's terrible
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:57 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
I saw this earlier. It will get fewer posts than a skater getting punched in the face.
It was a long time ago, though.
It was a long time ago, though.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:58 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
I read about this years ago and it made me sick bc if I recall, there was high probability that he was innocent. The electric chair didn't kill him that fast either, it zapped him and they stopped it a second and he was crying, then they zapped him some more.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:58 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
quote:Getting rid of the death penalty and working the convicted to death instead would be a good start.
1944 is not that long ago. Kinda sickening, and now a convicted murderer will sit on death row for 25 years and die of natural causes. We've got to find some middle ground.
And goddam if South Carolina isn't retarded as hell. Watching those people boo the golden rule in the 2012 GOP debates has never really left me. The hatred of those "Christians."
Posted on 12/17/14 at 9:59 pm to LewDawg
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crazy shite happened back then.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 10:01 pm to The Boat
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Someone let the boy know.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 10:03 pm to WaltTeevens
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Posted on 12/17/14 at 10:05 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
This is some fricked up shite though. I wonder why this story isn't as well known as Emmitt Till's.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 10:06 pm to DosManos
Now THIS is the kind of story people should have rioted over.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 10:07 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Well...ummmm...
I've got nothing.
I've got nothing.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 10:07 pm to DosManos
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This is some fricked up shite though. I wonder why this story isn't as well known as Emmitt Till's.
I think the brutality in Till's death was a factor. Also, his mother doing an open casket funeral made the story gain popularity.
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