Charged Without Evidence: George Stinney Jr.

In 1944, two schoolgirls were murdered in their hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. Witnesses claimed to have seen 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. talking with them on the day of their disappearance. George was swiftly arrested, interrogated, and charged with murder. After allegedly confessing to the crimes, he was sentenced to death, becoming the youngest person in all of America to undergo the death penalty. Three years later, the son of a powerful South Carolina family made a deathbed confession: George Stinney was innocent. In 2014, an ambitious team of lawyers reopened the case in an attempt to exonerate George and clear his name, 70 years after his untimely death.

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