Bringing a 65-year-old murder case to justice

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[waitingforcorrection: no audio attached, invalid GUID] In 1944, George Stinney Jr. was the youngest man to be executed, at age 14. Stinney, an African-American from South Carolina, was sentenced to death for the murder of two young white women, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and eight-year-old Mary Emma Thames. Now, 65 years later, some people are questioning whether or not Stinney may have been innocent. We’re speaking with  Shaun Kent, senior partner at Coffee, Chandler, Kent, and MacKenzie, the trial team representing George Stinney Jr.’s reopened case, and  George Frierson,  the man who brought Stinney’s case to light.

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