George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was an African-American child who was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial, of murdering two white girls, ages 7 and 11, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June 1944. Stinney is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed.
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21 October 1929 Alcolu, South Carolina
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Died |
16 June 1944 (aged 14) Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Zodiac | Libra |
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