The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...

Alcolu, SC (WLTX) -- A 14-year-old boy was sent to a South Carolina electric chair in 1944. George Stinney, Jr. was barely a teenager, black and was accused of murdering two young white girls in ...

TULSA, Okla. — Fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. was so small that officials stacked books to raise him high enough for the electric chair. The state of South Carolina wrongfully executed him, ...

George Stinney Jr. was just 14, a kid fond of art and airplanes with his whole life ahead of him, when men led him from his home and made him confess to crushing two girls’ skulls with a 15-inch piece ...

Stinney was interrogated without his parents or a lawyer, and his court-appointed attorney called no witnesses. Nearly 70 years later, a judge vacated the conviction, citing a fundamental deprivation ...

George Stinney Jr., of Alcolu, is one of 20 Black teenagers South Carolina has executed. He was electrocuted in 1944 at age 14. A judge overturned his conviction 70 years later. Provided photo George ...