17 Yrs later, South Carolina judge Clears A black teens name who was executed.

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17 Yrs later South Carolina judge Clears A black teens name who was executed.

Seventy years later, South Carolina judge exonerates black teen who was executed
His name was legally cleared on Tuesday

George Junius Stinney Jr., was 14 years old when he was sent to the electric chair in South Carolina for the 1944 murders of two white girls. His name was legally cleared on Tuesday.

Legal justice was a long time coming in the case of George Stinney, a 14-year-old black boy in rural South Carolina who became the youngest person executed in modern times when he was electrocuted 70 years ago for the murders of two white girls.On Tuesday, Judge Carmen Mullins vacated the boy’s conviction and cleared his name for the beating deaths of Mary Emma Thames, 7, and Betty June Binnicker, 11, in segregated Alcolu, S.C. The girls had been riding their bicycles when they disappeared in 1944. Their bodies were found in a watery ditch in the black side of town. Both had been attacked with a railroad spike. 

Betty June Binnicker, 11, was beaten to death with a railroad spike, along with friend Mary Thames, 7, in rural South Carolina in 1944. Fourteen-year-old George Stinney was executed for the murders. On Tuesday, a judge vacated his conviction.

Mullins found “fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process,” the judge said. She noted the lack of a credible defense during trial, and said the boy’s confession, of which there were two versions, appeared to have been coerced. There were no witnesses and no physical evidence in the case.

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