Best Carolina executed the youngest person in the US*, 14yo George Stinney after a trial that lasted one day. The trial was May, he was killed in June. He only had one visit with his parents in that time and had no other support. His representation didn’t call witnesses or cross examine the State’s witnesses. He was propped up in the electric chair by a book because his limbs couldn’t reach the restraints.
I oppose Capital punishment, but not on moral grounds. I’m glad they killed Tim McVegh. I was relieved when Biden kept Dylan Roof on Federal Death Row. I wish Susan Smith could have rode the same chair that killed Stinney. I just don’t think our legal system is competent to separate the Dylan Roofs from the Marion Bowmans.
Best Carolina executed the youngest person in the US*, 14yo George Stinney after a trial that lasted one day. The trial was May, he was killed in June. He only had one visit with his parents in that time and had no other support. His representation didn’t call witnesses or cross examine the State’s witnesses. He was propped up in the electric chair by a book because his limbs couldn’t reach the restraints.
I oppose Capital punishment, but not on moral grounds. I’m glad they killed Tim McVegh. I was relieved when Biden kept Dylan Roof on Federal Death Row. I wish Susan Smith could have rode the same chair that killed Stinney. I just don’t think our legal system is competent to separate the Dylan Roofs from the Marion Bowmans.
*is disputed, Georgia may have killed a 12yo