Today the judge will reconsider the George Stinney case.

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New trial sought for SC teen executed in 1944

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Attorneys in South Carolina say they have fresh evidence that warrants a new trial in the case of a 14-year-old black teenager put to death nearly 70 years ago for the murders of two white girls.

George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the United States in the last century, and attorneys say the request for another trial so long after a defendant's death is the first of its kind in the state.

No official record of the original court proceedings exists; no trial participants are alive, and no evidence was preserved. The law is unclear on whether any statute of limitations would prevent the case from being reopened.

Despite those obstacles, attorneys for Stinney's family will argue at a hearing Tuesday that the crime that rocked the small mill town of Alcolu in 1944 deserves another look.

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/new-trial-sought-for-sc-teen-executed-in-1944-1

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1. They used a bible as a Booster Chair

The execution of George Stinney was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, on June 16, 1944. At 7:30 p.m., Stinney walked to the execution chamber with a Bible under his arm, which he later used as a booster seat in the electric chair. [6] Standing 5 foot 2 inches (157 cm) tall and weighing just over 90 pounds (40 kg),[5] his size (relative to the fully grown prisoners) presented difficulties in securing him to the frame holding the electrodes. Nor did the state's adult-sized face-mask 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."[7][8] Stinney was declared dead within four minutes of the initial electrocution. From the time of the murders until Stinney's execution, eighty-one days had passed.[6]

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2. That poor soul.

I just know he was used to hide the crime of a known person in that community.

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3. A judicial travesty

And some ignorant red neck knuckle draggers cost as victims ( I wonder if they were even alive back then) oppose any inquiry into the case.