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2025-03-24 06:59:21 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: EC47998090661ECD9F7A6576EB1C9C2D3485C0F58BE87FF4F73508851A1310C6
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Stinney Jr. did not murder those two girls. Bribed with candy to sign a pre-written confession and denied legal counsel, he was innocent. Yet because he was Black, he became a scapegoat, sacrificed to placate white sensibilities. https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/mar/22/george-stinney-execution-verdict-innocent https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/17/371534533/s-c-judge-says-boy-14-shouldn-t-have-been-executed https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/george-stinney https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/18/the-rush-job-conviction-of-14-year-old-george-stinney-exonerated-70-years-after-execution/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25831553 https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-basic-facts-george-stinney-jr-14-year-old-black-child
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