old boy executed in 1944 seeks new trial
Both were executed June 16, 1944. Supporters of a 14 year old black boy executed in 1944 for killing two white girls are asking a South Carolina judge to take the unheard of move of granting him a new trial in hopes he will be cleared of the charges.
George Stinney was convicted on a shaky confession in a segregated society that wanted revenge for the beating deaths of two girls, ages 11 and 7, according to the lawsuit filed last month on Stinney's behalf in Clarendon County.
The request for a new trial has an uphill climb. The judge may refuse to hear it at all because the punishment was already carried out. Also, South Carolina has strict rules for introducing new evidence after a trial is complete, requiring the information to have been Cheap Viagra Australia impossible to discover before the trial and likely to change the results, said Kenneth Gaines, a professor at the University of South Carolina's law school.
An undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History shows 14 year old George Stinney Jr., the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina. Sixty five years later, a community activist is fighting to clear Stinney's name, saying the young black boy couldn't have killed two white girls. George Frierson, a 56 year old school board member and textile inspector, believes Stinney's confession was coerced, and that his execution was just another injustice blacks suffered in Southern courtrooms in the first half of the 1900s. (SC Kamagra Tablets DEPT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY SC Department of Archives and History)
"I think it's a longshot, but I admire the lawyer for trying it," Gaines said, adding he is not aware of any other executed inmates in the state being granted a new trial posthumously.
The request for a new trial is largely symbolic, but Stinney's supporters say they would prefer exoneration to a pardon.
Stinney's case intersects some long running disputes in the American legal system the death penalty and race. At 14, he is the youngest person executed in the United States in the past 100 years. Notes from Stinney's confession and most other information deputies and prosecutors used to convict Stinney in a one day trial have disappeared, along with any transcript of the proceedings. Only a few pages of cryptic, handwritten notes remain, according to the motion.
"Why was George Stinney electrocuted? The state can't produce any paperwork to justify why he was," said George Frierson, a local school board member who grew up in Stinney's hometown hearing stories about the case and decided six years ago to start studying it and pushing for exoneration.
The South Cialis Uk Side Effects Carolina Attorney General's Office will probably argue the other side of the case before the Clarendon County judge. A spokesman said their lawyers had not seen the motion and do not comment on pending cases. A date for a hearing on the matter has not been set.
Stinney's father worked for the major mill in town Kamagra Oral Jelly Wholesalers and lived in a company house. He was ordered to leave after his son was arrested, said Cheap Kamagra Supplier Stinney's brother Charles Stinney, who was 12 Viagra Singapore Gp when his older brother was arrested.
"George's conviction and execution was something my family believed could happen to any of us in the family. Therefore, we made a decision for the safety of the family to leave it be," Charles Stinney wrote in his sworn statement.
Charles Stinney said he remembered the events vividly because "for my family, Friday, March 24, 1944, and the events that followed were our personal 9/11."
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