South Carolina admits error in executing black teen in 1944

George Stinney Jr.

More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in the killings of two white girls in a segregated mill town, a judge threw out the conviction, saying the state committed a great injustice.






source CBC | World News http://ift.tt/1zwwuEn

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