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发帖数: 11983 | 1 美国南部南卡罗来纳州一位法官作出迟来的平反，撤销70年前遭处决的黑人青少年史蒂
尼的死罪。他被控谋杀2名白人少女，经草率审判就被送上电椅处死，成为美国最年轻
死刑犯。
史蒂尼（George Stinney）1944年遭处决时年仅14 岁，他个子瘦小，体重只有43
公斤，据报导坐上电椅受刑时，还得垫一本厚书。
南卡罗来纳州巡迴法院法官穆伦（Carmen Tevis Mullen）昨天在29页的判决书中
说，史蒂尼遭起诉处决，「依据宪法根本违反正当程序」。他认为，最大的不公不义莫
过于侵犯个人受宪法所保障的权利。
史蒂尼是在2个11岁和7岁的白人女孩遭殴打致死并弃尸沟渠后被捕，他只受审一天
，执法人员宣称他招认杀害两女，但法院纪录不见他的自白书。
虽然有位白人律师为史蒂尼辩护，但穆伦指出，律师似乎毫无作为。
全由白人组成的陪审团只讨论了几分钟就将史蒂尼定罪，他的律师却未提出上诉，
这个动作原本可以让他暂缓执行死刑。
史蒂尼的家人在事发后都逃离家乡艾尔克鲁镇（Alcolu），害怕在群情激愤的情况
下会遭到报复。
他的兄弟姐妹如今都已70和80来岁，他们在一批律师支持下，近年致力争取重审此
案。他的妹妹凯撒琳（Katherine Stinney Robinson）告诉当地报纸「曼宁时报」（
Manning Times）：「我觉得很激动，因为这是迟来的正义。」 | s**l
发帖数: 11983 | 2 电影 Carolina Skeletons 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaz3nCMa9k
The case was the basis for the 1988 novel Carolina Skeletons by David Stout,
who received for it the 1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel.[12
] Stout suggests in the novel that Stinney, whom he renames Linus Bragg, was
innocent. The plot centers around a fictitious nephew of Stinney/Bragg, who
unravels the truth about the case decades later and learns, on the way, of
the brighter and darker sides of Stinney's/Bragg's town.
The novel was adapted into a film of the same name directed by John Erman,
featuring Kenny Blank as Stinney/Bragg. Lou Gossett, Jr. played Stinney's/
Bragg's younger brother James,[13] who takes over the role occupied by the
nephew in the novel. Blank received for his portrayal of Stinney/Bragg a
Young Artist Award nomination for Best Young Actor in a Television Movie in
1991.[14]
George Junius Stinney, Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was, at age
14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.[1]
Stinney, an African-American youth from South Carolina, was convicted in a
two-hour trial[2] of the first-degree murder of two pre-teen white girls: 11
-year-old Betty June Binnicker, and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames. However, no
physical evidence existed in the case, and the sole evidence against
Stinney was the circumstantial fact that the girls had spoken with Stinney
and his sister shortly before their murder, and the testimony of three
police officers that Stinney had confessed. He was executed by electric
chair.
Since Stinney's conviction and execution, the question of his guilt, the
validity of his confession, and the judicial process leading to his
execution have been criticized as "suspicious at best and a miscarriage of
justice at worst."[3]
On December 17, 2014, his conviction was posthumously vacated.[4][5] | f********3
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