80 Years Later: Remembering George Stinney Jr., The 14-Year-Old Wrongly Executed In South Carolina

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the South Carolina stage execution of George Stinney Jr.

Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old Black boy, became an infamous symbol of racial injustice when he was executed by an electric chair in South Carolina in 1944 after being accused of murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames. The evidence a…