George Stinney, Jr. was a Black teenager who was convicted of murder and executed by the state of South Carolina in 1944.
, which told Stinney’s story and was based on David Stout’s 1988On the whole, the account presented in Atansi’s Facebook post was very accurate, correctly recounting the major facts of the case and describing several smaller details with a similarly high degree of accuracy.
The Defendant was tried for the murder of Betty June Binnicker on April 24, 1944, just one month after being taken into custody. An all-white male jury was selected and the trial concluded that same day during a special term of court with Judge P.H. Stoll presiding. Appearing on behalf of the State was Solicitor Frank McLeod, who presented evidence from law enforcement that the Defendant confessed to the crime.
Strictly speaking, Judge Mullen did not exonerate Stinney when she vacated his conviction, despite the 2018 social media claims that “his innocence has just been officially recognized by a judge in South Carolina.”, which had been requested by Stinney’s surviving siblings. is a relatively rare type of ruling in which a court is presented with facts about an earlier case which, if known at the time, would have been so significant as to make the verdict unreliable or invalid.
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