George Stinney Jr
10/21/1929 - 6/16/1944
Libra
Last Words
"Not Recorded"
Death & Legacy
George Stinney Jr, a black teenager from South Carolina who was the youngest person to be executed in the US in the past century, has been exonerated 70 years after he was put to death. He was just 14 when he was executed in 1944, having been convicted of the murder of two white girls in a trial that lasted less than a day. His conviction was quashed by a judge in South Carolina, who said he had been denied a fair trial.
Details
- Cause of Death
- Execution by electric chair
- Age at Death
- 14 years
- Funeral Location
- The location of George Stinney Jr.'s funeral is not publicly documented.
- Final Resting Place
- Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, South Carolina, USA