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What does George’s story tell us about the American judicial system and the way he continues to fail African-Americans?
In 1944, in the middle of the hard dazzling of Jim Crow, George Stinney Jr., 14, was attached to the Southern Carolina electric chair after a trial which lasted only one day. Without physical evidence, no defense witness and an all white jury that deliberated for ten minutes, he was found guilty of having murdered two white girls. Almost seven decades later, a judge threw the verdict.
In this episode:
– Matthew Burgess, criminal defense lawyer
– Dr Melanie Holmes, assistant professor of African-American studies
