Do DUers remember the execution of 14 year old George Stinney?

[malaise]

He wasn't too young to be tried and executed for a murder he didn't commit?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/18/the-rush-job-conviction-of-14-year-old-george-stinney-exonerated-70-years-after-execution/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d74e8de78aa


He was questioned in a small room, alone – without his parents, without an attorney. (Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark Supreme Court case guaranteeing the right to counsel, wouldn’t be decided until 1963.) Police claimed the boy confessed to killing Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 8, admitting he wanted to have sex with Betty. They rushed him to trial.

After a two-hour trial and a 10-minute jury deliberation, Stinney was convicted of murder on April 24 and sentenced to die by electrocution, according to a book by Mark R. Jones. At the time, 14 was the age of criminal responsibility. His lawyer, a local political figure, chose not to appeal.

Stinney’s initial trial, the evidence – or lack of it – and the speed with which he was convicted seemed to illustrate how a young black boy was railroaded by an all-white justice system. During the one-day trial, the defense called few or no witnesses. There was no written record of a confession. Today, most people who could testify are dead and most evidence is long gone.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Link was blocked. This poor kid...I wouldn't be surprised that this happened. ...

Too many examples have occurred in the past that events such as this happened. Very sad, and I'd like to think we're better than this today. I think and hope we are.

Thanks for posting the 'memorial' to this young kid. This is equivalent to putting flowers on his grave and remembering the despicable actions that murdered this kid.

[malaise]

3. Another link

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/17/371534533/s-c-judge-says-boy-14-shouldn-t-have-been-executed

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Thank you. I've read and assimulated. Another example of American history that is ...

disgraceful, pathetic, and profoundly tragic. Again, thank you.

[malaise]

12. I've cried many times watching that young boy's face

[SWBTATTReg]

13. I am reaching out and giving you a big hug, my friend...nt

[MagickMuffin]

2. Fast forward to the future and now POC get shot while just living

Cops have become, public executioners. No crime need be committed. Just shoot them dead.

Dust off their hands and look for another victim to kill.

America's ethnic cleansing. . . . It is happening here, every damn day!

[malaise]

4. Even in their own homes

Ask Botham Jean

[MagickMuffin]

5. I would, but he be dead at the hands of a killer cop

And of course their next recourse is making the deceased a criminal by releasing any police records to the media, so they can be tried by public opinion.

Works like a charm for them!

[malaise]

6. There are only two words to describe this

Institutional racism.

For women it's institutional misogyny promoted and perpetuated in all male schools and religious institutions.
Racism and Misogyny are a two headed monster promoted by the same folks.

[MagickMuffin]

7. Now Malaise, we ALL know how superior the white race is

However, we also know that they are stuperior in their hatred of any skin color darker than a freckle. But . . . . Freckles are cute!


And the funniest thing about the white race is: we are dying to have darker skin. I did as a kid, now, I don't like being in the sun at all.

[malaise]

8. LOL

[gratuitous]

10. One of the things I remember about Stinney

He was far too small for the electric chair, so the prison officials thoughtfully provided a phone book for him to sit on so that his little arms and legs would fit into the restraints.

Land of the free. Home of the brave.

[RobinA]

11. Here I Thought

you were going to make a point about the evils of a lack of due process.