ml8807: seemeflow: #GeorgeStinny age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States, in Colum
ml8807: seemeflow: #GeorgeStinny age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States, in Columbia, South Carolina. After being accused of murder. He sat on a bible that he carried into the chamber to fit in the electric chair at 5’ 1" and just over 90 pounds, the state’s adult-sized face-mask did not fit him; as he was hit with the first 2,400 V surge of electricity, the mask covering his face slipped off, “revealing his wide-open, tearful eyes and saliva coming from his mouth…After two more jolts of electricity, the boy was dead.On December 17, 2014, Stinney’s conviction was vacated by circuit court judge Carmen Mullen, who cited that as the youth had not received any kind of defense at his trial, his Sixth Amendment rights had been violated. The ruling was a rare use of the legal principle of coram nobis. Judge Mullen ruled that his confession was likely coerced and thus inadmissible.#neverforget #sayhisname #longbeforetamirrice #freedomordeath Oh my god -- source link