"Pi woman with resentment, three years of yang, Pi Fu angry, June flying frost." ——Zhang said "Prison Proverbs"
Now when people describe themselves as wronged, they will say, "I am even more wronged than Dou'e's sister." The "Dou'e" in this sentence is actually a character created in the works of Guan Hanqing, a miscellaneous drama of the Yuan Dynasty.
After the character's unjust death, the snow fell in the summer of June, and then there was even a three-year drought, all of which ended after her father had avenged her.
However, because Dou'e is a fictional character, after her death, the "heavens" will be unfair to her, and there is no such situation in reality, even if more people die with injustice, the sky will not be abnormal.
Since Dou E, who is mentioned, is mentioned here, we also tell a story of "Shen Zhaoxue", the protagonist of which is a 14-year-old African boy living in the United States.
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One day one year, George and his family came to Clarendon County, South Carolina, and settled in a small town called Alcorlu.
At that time, George was very eager to live in the United States, but what he did not expect was that his life would come to an abrupt end at the age of 14.
It was the summer of 1944, and George was playing in front of his house with his young sister. At that time, there was very serious racial discrimination in the United States.
The white community is separated from the black community by a railroad track, and the two races have little contact. George, who was watching his sister carefully, suddenly heard the voice of a girl who was asking him about the location of the passionflower field.
George then noticed two white girls pushing bicycles not far away. He was very kind enough to tell the two white girls where there were passionflower fields around him, and the white girls left.
In the evening, someone suddenly called the police to say that the bodies of two white girls, 11-year-old Betty and 7-year-old Mary, had been found in the ditch on the black side.
Second, George is a suspect
After an autopsy, the police found that both girls had been beaten with blunt iron objects, and Betty had also been sexually assaulted.
Not long after the autopsy results came out, the police officer in charge of the visit came to the news that the last time someone saw the two girls, it was they who were asking George for directions.
The police heard this and quickly arrested George and his brother Johnny. Since someone could prove that Johnny had an alibi at the time, the police released Johnny.
Not long after that, the sheriff announced that George had pleaded guilty and said they had found the murder weapon, an iron track nail.
At that time, many people spoke ill of George's family because of this incident, and George's life in prison was also very difficult. However, some people have also questioned: "Since George has confessed guilt, then why did not see the confession?"
It is also worth mentioning that some of George's cellmates also discussed the matter privately, because George had told them that the police had been deliberately starving him and using food to tempt him to confess as soon as possible.
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Later, the police found out that George had fought at the school and had slashed a girl with a knife. The police then declared George "well documented" and charged with first-degree murder.
On April 24, the judge tried George, and george was sentenced to electrocution after an all-white jury trial. On June 16, the executioners, in order to facilitate the execution, put a Bible under George's ass and let him die in pain.
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In 2004, a historian began studying the case, and his findings revealed that the real culprit was a white man who had died at the time, but before he died he admitted that Betty and Mary's deaths were his own doing.
He had dragged the body into a ditch on the black side in order to divert his attention. And the most frightening thing is that his family once sat on the bench where George was judged.
In January 2014, the court decided to hold a new hearing to give the public an explanation.
George's siblings were finally no longer denied testimony by the court as they had been before, and they said with great certainty that George had been with them at the time.
In addition, a priest at the time of the crime said, "There is not much blood in the ditch, which indicates that the body may have been moved from somewhere else." ”
So on December 17, 2014, the judge finally overturned George's conviction and redressed him, and it had been exactly 70 years since George's death...