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Journalist Bruce Smith wrote for The Associated Press 26 August 2016:
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Attorneys are investigating the possibility of filing a civil-rights lawsuit in the case of a black teenager electrocuted more than 70 years ago for the killings of two young white girls in a segregated South Carolina mill town.
George Stinney was 14 when he was arrested, convicted of murder in a one-day trial and executed in 1944. A state judge in 2014 tossed out the conviction, saying a grave injustice had been done.
...Miller Shealy, an attorney and law professor at the school who helped bring the case to overturn Stinney's conviction, said what happened in Clarendon County all those years ago was happening nationwide.
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Attorneys are investigating the possibility of filing a civil-rights lawsuit in the case of a black teenager electrocuted more than 70 years ago for the killings of two young white girls in a segregated South Carolina mill town.
George Stinney was 14 when he was arrested, convicted of murder in a one-day trial and executed in 1944. A state judge in 2014 tossed out the conviction, saying a grave injustice had been done.
...Miller Shealy, an attorney and law professor at the school who helped bring the case to overturn Stinney's conviction, said what happened in Clarendon County all those years ago was happening nationwide.
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