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On this day in 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound, 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. He remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.
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Jun. 16, 1944 | Fourteen-Year-Old George Stinney Executed in South Carolina
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