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George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, becomes youngest person to die in electric chair 70 years ago this hour (June 16 1944)


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(Friday, June 16, 1944, shortly after 7:30 p.m. Eastern War Time EWT) — George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, became the youngest person to die in the electric chair tonight as the state of South Carolina executed him at Central Correctional Institution in Columbia for the murders of two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7. Continue reading George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, becomes youngest person to die in electric chair 70 years ago this hour (June 16 1944)