On June 16, 1944, 14-year-old George Steinney was tortured in the electric chair, only 153 centimeters tall and weighing only 40 kilograms, because he did not have a matching torture device, he suffered greatly, and died 4 minutes later, and 70 years later, he was proven innocent.
The case of George Stenney has been called the greatest injustice of the 20th century.
Even now, many problems cannot be avoided by racial discrimination, such as the suicide of Chinese American soldier Chen Yuhui in 2011, which is outright racial discrimination.
Is it so now, and even more so in the 20th century?
George Steiny is an African-American boy who has been treated unequally since birth because of the color of his skin.
Even George Steeny's home is divided, and he lives with his parents in a small town in the United States called Aluca, which, like many towns, is divided into black and white, noble and low.
In the middle of the town of Aluka is a railroad track, on one side of the track live whites, and on the other side live blacks, many times, blacks are not allowed to go to whites, and whites can walk freely in this town.
These inequalities have long been accustomed to by 14-year-old George Steinney.
On March 22, 1944, George Steinney and his sister Catherine were playing on the edge of the house when two little white girls came to them asking for directions.
The two little white girls, named Betty Joan Binnick and Mary Emma Thames, were eleven and eight years old.
They were also residents of the town, because they were looking for a flower called "maypops" and saw George Stinney and his sister Catherine playing, so they went over and asked.
Although George Steinney did not know about this flower, he answered very politely and enthusiastically in the face of the inquiries of the two little girls.
But as everyone knows, this incident directly pushed him to the guillotine.
That night, the parents of the two little girls found that the two had not returned, so they searched everywhere, and after failing to do so, they directly called the police.
In the end, the police found the bodies of the two in a mud ditch, and according to the test, it was found that both had very serious head injuries and should have died from a heavy blow to the head.
In addition, a railway spike was also found next to it, and it was determined that someone should have done it deliberately.
Just two hours after the body was found, George Stinney was taken away by the police and taken to jail.
He was accompanied by a seventeen-year-old boy, but soon the teenager was acquitted, while George Stinney was imprisoned and not allowed to see anyone.
This is because George Stinney was identified by three police officers as the killer of the two girls, and their testimony was: "Stinney saw that the two girls were beautiful and wanted to rape the eleven-year-old girl, but because the other girl was watching from the side, he was ready to solve her first."
But when George Steinney was about to kill the little girl, the eleven-year-old girl rushed up and scuffled him, and in the end, he knocked both girls to death with iron nails. The body was also raped afterwards. ”
Although none of these George Stennis admitted it, the three officers wrote in their statements: George Stinney admitted this, and he also admitted that where to find the iron piece used to beat people, it was in the ditch where the two little girls died.
In the end, when George Stinney was brought to court, the entire courtroom was all white, with no black shadow.
George Steiny was sentenced to death in less than ten minutes of the trial, because in American law, the death penalty can be imposed at the age of 14, and George Steinney's execution time is three months later.
For three months, George Steiny was not allowed to appeal, and his parents did not have the money to appeal for him.
Because of George Statney's incident, everyone thought he was a murderer, and George Statney's family originally lived in the employer's house, working for the employer in exchange for food.
Because of this incident, my father was also fired and kicked out by his employer.
Three months later, June 16, 1944, was the day of George Steenney's execution.
At this time, he was only 153 cm tall and weighed only 80 pounds, because he was too small to tie him to the electric chair.
In the end, he barely tied a Bible with a bible, but for him, the electrodes of this electric chair were still too large.
Because of the match, George Statney's body suffered much more than any other death row prisoner, until four minutes later, George Statney guessed that he was relieved.
But what everyone did not expect was that this was a complete and unjust case.
In 2004, George's family sued him but was not taken seriously.
In fact, over the years, they have been looking for opportunities to sue George and wash away their grievances.
It wasn't until 2014 that the incident came to the fore again, when a white man's home was sorting through relics when he accidentally discovered a diary detailing how he killed two little girls.
In the end, George Steinney was wronged, and seventy years after his death, George Steinney was acquitted.
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