Every date
hides a crime.

In 1944, South Carolina executed a 14-year-old. He was innocent.

George Junius Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old Black boy in Alcolu, South Carolina, was executed on June 16, 1944 — the youngest person put to death in the United States in the twentieth century — after a three-hour trial, a ten-minute jury deliberation, and a coerced confession with no physical evidence; he was exonerated in December 2014.