George Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944),
was an African American boy, who was arrested and
charged in March 1944, at the age of 14, for murdering two
young girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma
Thames, age 7, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
He was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by
electric chair in June 1944, thus becoming the youngest
American with an exact birth date confirmed to be sentenced
to death and executed in the 20th century.
Posthumously,
in December 2014, Circuit Court Judge Carmen Mullen
vacated Stinney’s murder conviction, saying he got an unfair
trial and was thus wrongly executed.
A re-examination of Stinney's case began in 2004, and
several individuals and the Northeastern University School of
Law sought a judicial review. Stinney's conviction was
vacated in 2014, seventy years after he was executed, when a
court ruled that he had not received a fair trial, effectively
clearing his name. A vacated judgment "place the
parties in the position of no trial having taken place at all;
thus a vacated judgment is of no further force or effect.

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