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No Greater Injustice: The Jim Crow Era

14 Year-old SC teen execution….

Although this case is over 70 years old, George Stinney and his family of South Carolina (SC) can finally rest knowing his name has been cleared.

Stinney, age 14 at the time, was convicted and executed in SC on charges of killing two white girls in a segregated town. What makes this case so interesting is that Stinney was the youngest person to ever be executed without any real physical evidence linking him to the murders. Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen wrote in her ruling that she could think of no greater injustice.

Investigators at the time reported that witnesses said they saw Stinney with the girls playing and picking flowers and also confessed to the murders. Stinney supporters said that he was a small frail boy and so scared that he thought he told investigators what he thought would make them happy.

The trail was a one day trail with an all-white jury and during the time of the Jim Crow era where a black could be railroaded by the justice system. The case received massive attention and was picked up by a law firm in SC that believed the teen represented all that was wrong during that time of segregation. Even though we can’t get Stinney’s life back, Judge Mullen dropped all charges and vacated the conviction.