On this day in 1944, George Stinney, at 14 years, became the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair.
Due to no evidence, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70years after his execution!
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@Nonpareil_JQ not even plenty of countries have successfully put the benefit of their fellow countrymen before any other type of gain but that will never happen in America and ESPECIALLY not on Twitter. nothing is more popular than hate online and in the real world
Meet 100-year-old Grace Linn.
Grace is a widow of a WWII soldier who died fighting the Nazis. She calls herself “a mother of liberty”.
At a recent Martin County School Board meeting in Florida, she gave a passionate speech against the banning of books.
“My husband, Robert Nicoll, was killed in action in World War II at a very young age. He was only 26, defending our democracy, constitution and freedoms. One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned... Banning books and burning books are the same. Both are done for the same reason – fear of knowledge. Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control. My husband died as a father of freedom,” she said.
Thank you Grace!
Rasheem Carter, 25, called his mother to say a group of White men were chasing him and yelling slurs, she said.
Mississippi police said there was “no foul play,” even though his body was found dismembered. Now she wants a federal investigation. https://t.co/ankHJPjj66