Alabama pardons Scottsboro Boys after 82 years

Alabama pardons Scottsboro Boys after 82 years

A Trial Account by Douglas O. Linder  (c) 1999 states,
"No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931."

PBS.org. American Experience Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Advocates push for retrial to clear name of 14-year-old ’killer’ executed in 1944

Advocates push for retrial to clear name of 14-year-old ’killer’ executed in 1944

Nearly 70 years after the execution of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. for the killing of two white girls, advocates have taken the unprecedented step of asking a South Carolina court to grant a new trial to clear his name.

The request for a new trial is the culmination of a lengthy investigation, started years ago by local historian George Frierson, whose work brought attention to what he calls the barbaric death of a child. They sat him on a book to prop him up high enough to take his life.

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