Tag: wrongfully executed

• 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

• Justice denied in Colorado; Joe Arridy visits ‘Roy’s Penthouse.’

  

  “Yes, they are killing me.” – Joe Arridy, when asked by Warden Roy Best if he understood why he was about to step into Colorado’s gas chamber. It’s rarer than it used to be that a case affects me as much as this one. If you cover true crime for a living then you learn…

  CrimeScribe

  March 19, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

  Canon City, capital punishment, Colorado, crime, death penalty, executed, execution, exonerated, framed, Frank Aguilar, gaschamber, Governor Bill Ritter, History, injustice, innocence, innocent, Joe Arridy, justice, law, murder, Peckerwod Hill, Politics, prison, Pueblo, Pueblo Chieftain, railroaded, Roy Best, Roy’s Penthouse, true crime, Warden Roy Best, wrongfully executed