Executed teenager gets day in court, 70 years later

Lawyers finally got the chance to argue on behalf of George Stinney, 70 years after the 14-year-old black boy was sent to the electric chair for killing two white girls in South Carolina.

Executed teenager gets day in court, 70 years later

Lawyers finally got the chance to argue on behalf of George Stinney, 70 years after the 14-year-old black boy was sent to the electric chair for killing two white girls in South Carolina.

Whether his conviction from that segregation-era court is thrown out is now up to Judge Carmen Mullen after a two-day hearing concluded yesterday.

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