...The final project for the course was for students to choose a topic that had been discussed in class, and create some type of presentation. My group chose to dedicate and create our program around the case of George Stinney Jr. George Stinney Jr. was a fourteen year old African American boy, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1944 in the state of South Carolina. Stinney had allegedly murdered two young white girls, and was convicted of first degree murder in under ten minutes, by an all white jury. He is one of the youngest people in the United States in the 20th-century to be sentenced to death and to be executed. After 70 years, George Stinney Jr.’s case ruling was overturned and it was admitted that he had be wrongfully convicted....
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...including in the judicial system. One example of this is George Stinney’s trial and execution. George Stinney was a fourteen-year-old boy who lived in Alcolu, South Carolina. He was convicted of murdering two young white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 8, in 1944 (Chapell). After the initial arrest, Stinney supposedly confessed, but there is no written or oral proof that a confession ever occurred. In trial, he received a lawyer that had no experience representing criminal defendants. As the trial proceeded, Stinney’s lawyer failed to call a witness for his defense. The all-white jury deliberated for just 10 minutes before finding him guilty (Wegman). Stinney received the death penalty (Bever). After the sentencing, his lawyer refused to file an appeal to the sentence. On June 16, 1944, George Stinney was executed by electric chair at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, South Carolina; only three months after the crime...
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...These children are more acceptable to be taken advantage of during an investigation of a criminal case. Juveniles are often intimidated by adults and authority figures, and are more likely to be the victims that are pressure into confessions, which are often not truth. Furthermore, juveniles are not likely to refer to their Miranda Rights, including their rights for legal representation. It is important to know that the goal of the death penalty does not pertain to the juveniles. Retribution is aim to give the cruel punishment to serious offenders. It is more likely that the juveniles will be more effective in the rehabilitation process because of a young person emotional immaturity and lessened accountability; they are not the “worst of the...
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...killed by the prison guards. Tom Robinson’s trial was unfair and was heard by a biased jury. The question now is: Would Tom’s case have played out in a modern court like it did in the book? The answer is NO! It is true that minorities feel that prejudices and racism against them are still present in our modern justice system, which can be supported by the recent riots and the “Black Lives Matter” movement. However, Tom Robinson’s trial would not have had the same outcome in our modern judicial system as it did in To Kill A Mockingbird due to modern day defenders of Civil Rights for all....
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...Griffin and George Stinney all have something in common. Despite all coming from very different backgrounds and very different families they all share one thing in common, they were all wrongly put to death. Each of their cases were revaluated after their deaths and each man was proven innocent, their families were awarded a large sum of money as compensation for the Courts mistakes. But with this fact being said can any sum of money truly contemplate for the loss of a life? Can money truly replace a loved one- a son, a husband, a wife? It is an obvious fact that money cannot buy back a human life. There have been many other recorded cases of executions; cases that were later proven to be innocent and...
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