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George Junius Stinney, Jr. (October 21, 1929 June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person
executed in the
United States in the 20th century.[SUP][/SUP]
Stinney, an
African-American youth from South Carolina, was convicted of the
first-degree murder of two pre-teen
white girls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker, and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames. However, no
physical evidence existed in the case, and the sole evidence against Stinney was the
circumstantial fact the girls had spoken with Stinney and his sister shortly before their murder and the testimony of three police officers, presented at a trial which lasted barely two hours,[SUP][/SUP] that Stinney had confessed to the murders. He was executed by
electric chair.
Since Stinney's conviction and execution, the question of his guilt, the validity of his confession, and the judicial process leading to his execution have been criticized as "suspicious at best and a miscarriage of justice at worst."[SUP]
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Stinney was arrested on suspicion of murdering two girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8, in Alcolu,
Clarendon County, South Carolina, on March 23, 1944.[SUP][/SUP] Alcolu was a small, working class, mill town, where whites and blacks were separated by railroad tracks. The girls had disappeared while out riding their bicycles looking for flowers. As they passed the Stinney property, they asked young George Stinney and his sister, Katherine, if they knew where to find "
maypops", a local name for passionflowers. When the girls did not return, search parties were organized, with hundreds of volunteers. The bodies of the girls were found the next morning in a ditch filled with muddy water. Both had suffered severe head wounds.[SUP][/SUP]