Last week’s execution of Troy Davis in Georgia received wall-to-wall media coverage. Whatever your thoughts on Capital Punishment, you’re sure to ponder them after you read about George.
The NON-Conformist and Libergirl
In 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr., 14, became the youngest person executed for a crime in the United States in the 20th century. The 5’1, 95-lb. African-American boy was sent to the electric chair for allegedly killing two young white girls – 11 year-old Betty June Binnicker and eight-year-old Mary Emma Thames – by beating them with a railroad spike and dragging their bodies to a ditch in South Carolina.
TheConfirmationFiles 
OMG! Chilling to read such a thing. But then, I can’t help but think of how blacks were legally executed under Jim Crow laws anyway. Sad, regardless. 14 years old…Umph, umph, umph…