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.