TOW #16

http://news.yahoo.com/trial-sought-sc-boy-14-executed-1944-172035983.html


In 1944, a young man, 14 years old, by the name of George Stinney was executed by the state of South Carolina for the murder of two white girls, aged 7 and 11 years old. He was found guilty in a trial which only lasted 2 hours, and was held and interrogated by multiple police officers, grown white men, before confessing to the crime. A full story was included in the confession detailing how he did it and why. However, what people are  beginning to find out is that this crime would have been impossible to commit. The murder weapon, which was found near the two bodies of the young girls, was a rail spike weighing over 20 pounds. Stinney would have barely been able to lift the weapon, let alone swing it multiple times in the way that crushed the skulls of the two young victims. In South Carolina in the 1940s, however, racism ran rampant, and Stinney happened the last person to see them alive. If he had been a white boy, there is almost no doubt that Stinney would have been acquitted or not even tried for the crime. Now, however, there may be retribution as Stinney gets another day in court, mainly to clear the name of the youngest person ever executed.