Man claims to have shared a cell with George Stinney (14 year old who was executed by state)
<Wilford ‘Johnny’ Hunter tells theGrio.com’s Todd Johnson he was serving time for car theft in a South Carolina jail when he met Stinney for the first time.
On June 16, 1944, the 14-year-old teen became the youngest person executed in the 20th century. Stinney was tried and convicted of murdering two white girls in Alcolu, South Carolina. He was sentenced to die by electrocution after a trial which lasted only a few hours.
No appeal was filed.
Hunter said Stinney told him in he didn’t commit the crime.
“He said ‘Johnny, I didn’t do it, I didn’t do it,’” Hunter said of his conversation with Stinney. “He said ‘Why would they want to kill me for something I didn’t do?’”>
http://thegrio.com/2013/12/05/man-claims-to-have-shared-a-cell-with-george-stinney/#53744037
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So sad...
