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Entries tagged with “George Stinney”

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Mar 12, 2014

Efforts Underway to Exonerate 14-Year-Old Executed in South Carolina in 1944

Attorneys rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly of George Stinney, Jr., recent­ly filed a request for a posthu­mous exon­er­a­tion of Mr. Stinney, the youngest per­son exe­cut­ed in the U.S. in the 20th cen­tu­ry. Stinney, an African-American 14‑y…

Policy Issues

Race

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History of the Death Penalty

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Recent Legislative Activity

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Methods of Execution

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May 06, 2021

South Carolina Legislature Authorizes Use of Electric Chair and Firing Squad as State Reaches 10 Years Without an Execution

One day shy of the tenth anniver­sary of the state’s last exe­cu­tion, the South Carolina leg­is­la­ture, frus­trat­ed by the state’s inabil­i­ty to obtain exe­cu­tion drugs, approved a bill that would autho­rize putting pris­on­ers to death in …