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<Wilford Johnny Hunter tells theGrio.coms Todd Johnson he was serving time for car theft in a South Carolina jail when he met Stinney for the first time.
On June 16, 1944, the 14-year-old teen became the youngest person executed in the 20th century. Stinney was tried and convicted of murdering two white girls in Alcolu, South Carolina. He was sentenced to die by electrocution after a trial which lasted only a few hours.
No appeal was filed.
Hunter said Stinney told him in he didnt commit the crime.
He said Johnny, I didnt do it, I didnt do it, Hunter said of his conversation with Stinney. He said Why would they want to kill me for something I didnt do?>
http://thegrio.com/2013/12/05/man-claims-to-have-shared-a-cell-with-george-stinney/#53744037
defacto7
(13,485 posts)So sad...
hlthe2b
(102,405 posts)though I've been anti-death penalty forever, had I ever had doubts, the electric chair execution of this young boy surely would have cemented those anti- views.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)is beyond my imagination. Absolutely disgusting!
Baitball Blogger
(46,763 posts)Who DID kill the girls? Because the person or persons who did the killing, also framed George Stinney, Jr.
polly7
(20,582 posts)nearly brings me to tears every time I see those eyes. Such a horrible thing.