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"June 16, 1944: George Junius Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old African American boy, was strapped into a South Carolina electric chair. He became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century. Faber explores the events leading to St…
"Eli Faber, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has written a narrative history of the case of George Stinney, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was executed for the alleged murder of two white girls (ages 8 and 11) in June 1944. This …