An opera spotlighting the agony of the injustice around wrongfully accused George Junius Stinney Jr. In 1944, a 14-year-old Black boy named George Junius Stinney Jr. was executed. Wrongfully accused ...

Stinney was interrogated without his parents or a lawyer, and his court-appointed attorney called no witnesses. Nearly 70 years later, a judge vacated the conviction, citing a fundamental deprivation ...

It’s been 70 years since George Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old South Carolina boy, faced the electric chair for the 1944 murders of two young white girls in Alcolu, but his name has finally been cleared ...

George Stinney Jr. was just 14, a kid fond of art and airplanes with his whole life ahead of him, when men led him from his home and made him confess to crushing two girls’ skulls with a 15-inch piece ...

Blackmagic Design has announced Opera Grand Rapids and Colvin Theatrical used Blackmagic Design cameras, switchers and DaVinci Resolve for editing and grading the cinematic opera film Stinney: An ...

SUMTER - This week's hearing about whether 14-year-old George Stinney received a fair trial in 1944 lasted several times longer than his original trial, where he was found guilty of murdering two ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...

Stinney: An American Execution is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

George Stinney Jr., of Alcolu, is one of 20 Black teenagers South Carolina has executed. He was electrocuted in 1944 at age 14. A judge overturned his conviction 70 years later. Provided photo George ...