Day Tripping: June 16
Travesties, Trajectories, and Transitions
Justice Too Late
Tried and convicted in just eighty-three days in 1944, George Stinney Jr was executed by electric chair for the murder of two young white girls though there was no physical evidence presented at the trial. George was 14-years-old, the youngest person ever to be put to death in the 20th century. The prosecution's…