Tag: racist

• George Stinney, a stain on American justice.

  

  The case of George Junius Stinney could easily be described as a stain on American justice, or the lack thereof. Stinney was executed in South Carolina’s electric chair in 1944 aged only 14, the youngest American to face execution in the 20th century. His confession was probably coerced, his trial a travesty of justice and his…

  CrimeScribe

  April 8, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

  Alcolu, all-white jury, Betty June Binnicker, Central Correctional Institution, Charles Plowden, Circuit court Judge Carmen Mullen, Columbia, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, George Frierson, George Stinney, Governor Olin Johnston, Jim Crow, Jim Crow justice, Judge Stoll, juvenile, Mary Emma Thames, Olin Johnston, racism, racist, South Carolina, wrongful execution, wrongfully executed, wrongly convicted

• Huddie ‘Leadbelly’ Ledbetter – Bluesman, Convict and Murderer.

  

  William Huddle Ledbetter. AKA ‘Lead Belly’, was one of the archetypal blues icons of the Deep South. He wasn’t from Mississippi or Chicago, unlike so many contemporaries, but he still had a prodigious appetite for music and the talent to match. His fondness for life’s many rich pleasures (mainly involving boozing, brawling and bumping monkeys)…

  CrimeScribe

  August 23, 2014

  True Crime, Uncategorized

  celebrity, convicted, conviction, court, courtroom, crime, crime and punishment, danger, death, fame, famous, fight, fighter, fighting, guilty, History, judges, justice, law and order, lawyers, multiple murder, murder, murderer, New York, not guilty, pop culture, prison, prosecution, prosecutor, racism, racist, United States, US, USA

• The Strange Case Of Leroy Henry

  

  The strange case of Leroy Henry attracts me for two reasons. One is that I like to look at the unusual. Even if posting on a widely-known and common story then I prefer one with a twist. It helps keep things interesting. Leroy Henry’s case was very interesting. Private Henry was one of the hundreds…

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  August 16, 2014

  History, Odds And Ends, Press And Politics, True Crime

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• Joseph Paul Franklin Will Die Tonight

  This is Joseph Paul Franklin. He’s reportedly confessed to 22 murders, at least 16 bank robberies, several non-fatal shootings and a number of other crimes. Most famously, Franklin was the man who shot porn magnate Larry Flynt (leaving him permanently paralysed) and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. Jr. (who also survived). Franklin, barring any last-minute…

  CrimeScribe

  November 19, 2013

  True Crime

  Adolf Hitler, anti-semitism, bigotry, capital punishment, death penalty, death sentence, execution, hate crime, Hustler, Indiana, Joseph Paul Franklin, Larry Flynt, lethal injection, Missouri, multiple murder, murder, murderer, porn, pornography, racism, racist, serial killer, shot, true crime, Vernon Jordan