First Black Kid Electric Chair

The racial bias that forced a 14 year old stinney in to an electric chair some 68 years ago clearly exists today.

First black kid electric chair. Ap 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. Edgar hoover had no power to make such a deal. William francis kemmler may 9 1860 august 6 1890 of buffalo new york a peddler and known alcoholic was convicted of murdering matilda tillie ziegler his common law wife. This is the disturbing story of an innocent african american child who was killed in the electric chair after being convicted of murder in just 10 minutes by an all white jury. He would become the first person in the world to be legally executed using an electric chair. We must not allow little george stinneys death to be.

Black 14 year old boy exonerated 70 years after he was executed. George stinney was convicted on a shaky confession in a. George stinney jr became the youngest person to be executed in the us in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944. The 14 year old lived with his father george stinney sr mother aime brothers john 17 and charles 12 and sisters katherine 10 and aime 7. George stinney jr who was 14 when he died in 1944 is the youngest person executed in the us during the 20 th century. Update dec 2014 george stinney was cleared conviction vacated in a court of law 70 years too late.

A plant city man on death row is the first ever to demand the electric chair and a rarely used loophole in the law may grant wayne doty his wish. Worked at the towns sawmill and the family resided in company housing. Witnesses saw him grimace and jerk as he became the first person put to death in that state with pentobarbital. George junius stinney jr. In alabama for example 80 percent of all death sentences are imposed in cases where the victim is white even though 65 percent of the states murder victims are black. Alcolu was a small working class mill town where white and black neighborhoods were separated by railroad tracks.

First execution by electric chair. When abraham kid twist reles sang to the feds implicating buchalter in a murder the gang leader was soon headed back up the river. On march 4 1944 he became the first and only mob boss to be executed via the electric chair in sing sing known as old sparky. A plant city man on death row is the first ever to demand the electric chair and a rarely used loophole in the law may grant wayne doty his wish. Skip navigation sign in. Was at age 14 the youngest person executed in the united states in the 20th century 1944 the boy was small for his age 51 so small they had to stack books on the electric chair.