There was no written statement of his confession apart from the officers words. He was confined for 81 days without any visits.The entire proceeding against Stinney, including the all-white- jury selection, took only one day and no black people were allowed in the courtroom.
The sheriff arrested George and his brother John (later released), because he claimed that George confessed and led officers to the 'place where he hid the murder weapon'. His father was fired from his job at a local sawmill and ordered to vacate the company house.
George was accused of killing two white missing girls, 11-Year-old Betty and 7-year-old Mary, their bodies were found near the house where he lived with his parents in Alcolu, South Carolina march 1944.
George Stinney, 14, was 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 70 years after his execution! #BlackHistoryMonth
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