Facebook user Chiadikaobi O. Atansi posted several images, including Stinney's mugshot and three still images from a movie based on his life, along with the following message: a b "Youth Admits Slaying Girls". The Milwaukee Journal. AP. March 25, 1944. Archived from the original on October 31, 2023 . Retrieved October 18, 2015. Filmmaker Jamison Stalsworth's short film The Current: The Story of George Stinney was released in 2017. [50] [51] [52] A South Carolina judge did not declare Stinney "innocent" or exonerate him in 2014; she overturned his conviction on the basis that his trial and execution violated his constitutional due process rights. Origin

George Stinney Jr.’s siblings were overjoyed to learn that their brother was exonerated after 70 years, appreciating that they were able to live long enough to see it happen. year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest American and also the youngest human in the 20th century to be executed by electrocution.a b c Bever, Lindsey (December 18, 2014). "It took 10 minutes to convict 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. It took 70 years after his execution to exonerate him". Washington Post. In July 1982, the city of Waco, Texas was horrified by the brutal murders of three teenagers, two girls and a boy. Deputy Truman Simmons got the idea that local store owner Muneer Mohammad Deeb hired three men (including David Wayne Spence) to kill a woman named Gayle Kelly. But Gayle Kelly was not even one of the victims. Deputy Simmons claimed that the killers had mistaken one of the girls as Kelly, and then killed the others because they were witnesses. Not on the walls? Photographs, newspaper clippings, anything that mentions the three dead children. “Mostly, we want to remember the good that happened in Alcolu,” Richburg explained. She said: "No one can justify a 14-year-old child charged, tried, convicted and executed in some 80 days." The injustices, she said, included a witness who discovered the victims' bodies being allowed to sit on the coroner's inquest; a trial that lasted less than a day; a state-appointed defence lawyer, Plowden, who did not call any witnesses, ask any questions on cross-examination, offered little or no defence and filed no appeal. Mullen concluded: "In essence, not much was done for this child when his life lay in the balance." Her ruling is expected any day. An officer named H.S. Newman wrote in a handwritten statement, “I arrested a boy by the name of George Stinney. He then made a confession and told me where to find a piece of iron about 15 inches long. He said he put it in a ditch about six feet from the bicycle.”

Thomas Granger, sixteen-year-old boy who was the first documented juvenile to be executed on United States territory In 2014, George Stinney Jr. was finally exonerated. His siblings stated that his confession was coerced and that he had a solid alibi; stating that he was with his sister Aime watching the family’s cow. They also stated that a man named Wilford Hunter, who claimed to be Stinney’s cellmate said that Stinney maintained his innocence till the end. Unfortunately, it turned out to be her last meeting with his son. He had not been convicted or found guilty, according to any official reports. The next time she happen to see her son was when she was asked to claim his body after execution by the officials.Jesse Wegman, “ George Stinney was Executed at 14,”(New York: New York Times, January 12, 2015), 9. ↵ The following description of the basic facts of the case is taken from the ruling of Carmen Tevis Mullen, the 14th Judicial District judge in South Carolina who vacated Stinney's conviction in 2014. It contains descriptions of violence against children that some readers might find upsetting: Faber, Eli (June 25, 2021). The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South. Univ of South Carolina Press. p.107. ISBN 978-1-64336-195-6.

Pan, Deanna and Jennifer Berry Hawes. "New Details Emerge About an Alternate Suspect in Alcolu Girls' Murders." The Post and Courier. 28 March 2018. That afternoon, George and Amie were home with their half-brother, Johnny, who was visiting from their grandmother’s house in the nearby town of Pinewood before reporting for military duty. Their parents were away, and their brother Charles had gone with their sister Katherine to the beauty parlor. The evidence here is too speculative and the record too uncertain for the motion to succeed," he said.Stinney's family, churches, and the NAACP appealed to Governor Olin D. Johnston for clemency, given the age of the boy. Ironically, most of the pleas for clemency came from white women living in South Carolina. Some pleas from whites came with affirmations of white supremacy, but discomfort at the prospect of someone so young being executed. [18] The catalyst for the legal action came via George Frierson, a local historian and a member of Clarendon's School District Three's board of trustees, who was born in Alcolu and went to elementary school when the lumber yard was still running. Frierson began investigating the case in 2004 after a small piece in a local newspaper reminded him of it. Frierson said the more he researched, the more he became convinced by George's innocence. He says there was little blood at the ditch, evidence that the girls were killed elsewhere. "A 95lb boy can't carry two dead bodies a quarter mile or more. Those girls were beaten to a pulp. There would have been a lot of blood."

Jesse Wegman, “ George Stinney was Executed at 14,”(New York: New York Times, January 12, 2015), 8. ↵

Judge Carmen T. Mullen overturned Stinney’s murder conviction in December 2014 after months of deliberation, describing the death penalty as a “great and fundamental injustice.” Tears of Joy