2023-06-19 12:42:08
Stinney was not proven innocent. In a new trial the judge ruled that Stinney "may well have committed this crime“ but vacated the earlier ruling because Stinney received an unfair trial. [Link][Link] The images are from the movie „Carolina Skeletons“(1991). NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(43-0-46) Author
2023-06-19 18:03:45
NNN, whilst it was not “proven” that he was guilty/innocent the evidence and/or lack thereof suggests that he was likely innocent and there are claims that there was a deathbed confession from an alternative suspect according to historian George Frierson. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(13-1-4) Author
2023-06-21 20:40:04
The photo included in this tweet is from the film “Carolina Skeletons” which is based on the George Stinney case. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(14-1-7) Author
2023-06-22 03:22:25
George Junius Stinney Jr. was a 14-year-old African American boy wrongly convicted and executed in 1944 in South Carolina. His conviction was overturned in 2014 due to lack of due process and racial prejudice, posthumously declaring him innocent. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(9-2-0) Author