14-year old George Stinney Jr (at the front) on his way to electric chair in 1944.
George Stinney Jr. was led into the death house at South Carolina's state prison in Columbia. Standing just 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 95 pounds, Stinney was a child being led toward an adult punishment that would take his life.
Stinney had been convicted of murdering two young white girls, Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames, in the segregated town of Alcolu, South Carolina. His trial lasted only one day. An all-white jury deliberated for roughly ten minutes before finding him guilty and sentencing him to death. His court-appointed lawyer presented almost no meaningful defense, did not call family members who could have provided an alibi, and filed no appeal.
On June 16, 1944, just weeks after his conviction, South Carolina executed Stinney in the electric chair. He became the youngest person executed in the United States during the 20th century. His small size reportedly created difficulties because the electric chair had been designed for adults.
For decades, Stinney's family maintained that he had not committed the murders. In 2014, seventy years after his execution, a South Carolina judge vacated his conviction, finding that his constitutional right to due process had been violated and that his defense had been fundamentally inadequate. The ruling did not conduct a new trial, but it formally overturned the conviction.
@TwitchGauchiste L'antisémite @Pantoufl qui feint d'être antisémite alors qu'il ricanait le lendemain du 7 octobre au sujet des jeunes qui ont été suppliciés au festival Nova. Espèce d'ordure.
Personne n'oublie votre responsabilité dans les attentats islamistes de Charlie Hebdo, Rokhaya Diallo, comme vous l'avez justement fait remarqué Pascal Bruckner (qui a gagné son procès contre vous concernant ce passage légendaire)
"Ils veulent qu'on réussit en s'adaptant à des conditions qu'on peut pas s'adapter."
Non, mon lapin : en attendant que tu "réussis" ta licence d'anglais, je préférerais que tu apprennes le français. Mais j'en veux surtout à cette Éducation nationale dont tu incarnes, bien malgré toi, le mensonge et la faillite.
Este perro acompañó por 3 días a unos montañistas que realizaban trekking por la cordillera de los Andes; lo increíble es que de vez en cuando se detenía a contemplar el panorama como si entendiera la majestuosidad del lugar.