George Stinney

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Today In History: Exactly 77 Years Ago Today, 14-Year-Old Black American, George Stinney Was Put To Death For A Crime He Did Not Commit, Only To Be Exonerated 70 Years Later

On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr., a ninety-pound, black, fourteen-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia,…