George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person to be sentenced to death in the 20th century in the United States.
He was only 14 years old when he was electrocuted.
During the trial, until the day of the execution, he always held the Bible in his hands, and swore that he was innocent of the crime.
He was charged with the murder of two white girls, Betty 11 years old and Mary 7 years old, the bodies were found near the house where the boy lived with his parents.
During the trial, ALL jurors were white. The trial lasted only 2 hours, and the jury delivered the verdict in 10 minutes.
The child's parents were threatened and prevented from even delivering parcels to him in prison and in the courtroom, and then they were expelled from the city altogether.
Prior to his execution, George spent 81 days without seeing his parents.
He was placed in solitary confinement in a prison, 80 km from his hometown. All of his testimony was heard by white police officers and investigators, alone, without the presence of his parents or lawyer.
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He was electrocuted when 5,380 volts passed through his head.
70 years later, his innocence was finally proven by a judge in South Carolina.
The scrap that killed the two girls weighed over 19.07 kilograms. So Stinny couldn't lift him, let alone punch him hard enough to kill the two girls. The child was innocent, convicted and executed just because he is black.
Stephen King was so inspired by this endeavor that he wrote his book The Green Mile, a film that was released in 1999 in theaters.
So that's it.
Alexander Sarto