June 16th: George Stinney Executed (Mary Thames and Betty Binnicker)(1944)
Racism has been playing a role in crime for longer than we would care to admit. On June 16th 1944 a young boy was put to death for a crime that, depending on what side you land on, was either a gross miscarriage of justice or a biased trial of a guilty individual.
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Jun 2025
South Carolina's Child Execution
In 1944, amid the harsh glare of Jim Crow, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. was strapped into South Carolina’s electric chair after a trial that lasted just a single day. With no physical evidence, no defense witnesses, and an all-white jury that deliberated for ten minutes, he was ... Show More
34m 15s
Jan 2023
Charged Without Evidence: George Stinney Jr.
In 1944, two schoolgirls were murdered in their hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. Witnesses claimed to have seen 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. talking with them on the day of their disappearance. George was swiftly arrested, interrogated, and charged with murder. After alleged ... Show More
45m 29s
Aug 2019
The murder of black teenager Emmett Till
Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi, in the USA.His death was one of the key events that energized the American civil rights movement. An all-white jury acquitted the two white suspects. Farhana Haider has been listening through interv ... Show More
9m 36s
Oct 2013
The Scottsboro Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice in the US
In 1931, nine black teenagers were convicted of raping two white girls in the southern US state of Alabama.Eight were sentenced to death by an all-white jury; but after years of campaigning, all eventually went free.We hear from the daughter of Clarence Norris, one of the accused ... Show More
8m 53s