Horrifying case of boy, 14, executed on death row for heinous crimes he didn't commit

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death row without a chance to say goodbye to his family. Unconfirmed reports claimed guards had to use a bible or telephone directory as a booster seat because at just 5ft 1ins tall and weighing 6st 7lbs, he was too small for the adult-size seat.His sisters, Katherine Robinson and Amie Ruffner, along with their brother Charles, spent the next 70 years fiercely fighting for justice and finally, in 2014, a judge overturned George's murder conviction.

A victory of sorts, it could not, however, undo the pain caused by the wrongdoing. The anger for the horrendous miscarriage of justice, rightly, never abated and George's story has continued to horrify people.

George and his family lived in Alcolu, South Carolina, where white and black people were separated by railroad tracks. The whole town was horrified when in March 1944, two young girls were found dead in a ditch.Betty June Binnicker, 11 and Mary Emma Thames, seven, had been looking for a flower - the edible maypop, fruit of passionflowers.

The two stopped to ask George and his sister Amie if they knew where they might find them. According to reports, it was the last time the pair were seen alive.People came out in their hundreds to search for the missing girls, with George Stinney’s father also helping to look for the two.