Justice Demanded for 70-year-old Conviction of SC black teen

In the lumber mill town of South Carolina , in the spring of 1944 , the grizzly murder of two little girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicke and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames, both white, shattered the community. their bludgeoned bodies were found underneath a ditch. A few hours later, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. was taken into custody. He gave an oral confession but advocates say there is no written record of that. His family was run out of town. And the South Carolina governor wrote this letter, claiming Stinney raped one of the girls' dead body, although the autopsy report made no claim of sexual assault.