Judge throws out teen’s murder conviction 70 years after his execution
Source: Washington Post
When George Stinney Jr. was executed for the killings of two white girls in 1944, he was so small that the straps of South Carolina’s electric chair didn’t fit him properly, and he had to sit on a book for his electrocution.
Stinney was just 14 years old at the time and became the youngest person put to death in the United States in the 20th century. But this week, 70 years after the fact, Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen tossed out his conviction, which was reached after a trial that didn’t even last a full day and was never appealed. As the Associated Press noted, it took Mullen “nearly four times as long to issue her ruling as it took in 1944 to go from arrest to execution.”
“I can think of no greater injustice,” Mullen wrote in her 29-page order, the AP reported.
Stinney, who was black, was arrested for the beating deaths of two young girls in the segregated town of Alcolu. There wasn’t any physical evidence linking him the crimes, and he wasn’t allowed to see his parents after he was apprehended.
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USA! USA! USA!.......
sad part about it is, our racist policing and justice system is still executing kids....70 years later and leaving them to die in the streets with no one held responsible....and did i mention the older ones that are still being executed and murdered also, while unarmed? Oh never mind....
A-freaking-men! 
"One innocent life is not worth a bloodlust punishment that has zero benefit to society, and there's been far more than one."
