South Carolina judge tosses conviction of black teen executed in 1944

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

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http://news.yahoo.com/south-carolina-judge-tosses-conviction-black-teen-executed-172540987.html

[Modernity has failed us]

I guess it's better than no justice at all.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Another reminder of what a disgusting place the American South was.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

70 years...

Unbelievable.

I've been reading about this highly disturbing (still an understatement) case sometime ago and it appears that Stinney's execution went basically unnoticed until the late 1980s. And still, it took another quarter of the century years more to toss the conviction...

[ElectionsGuy]

Holy s***. The faster they confess up to the crimes of the state in the past the better, but this is just awful. 70 damn years!

[© tweed]

Another reminder of what a disgusting place the American South was.

they'd still be executing children if the SCOTUS allowed them to.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Horrible.  Apparently the boy's family were forced to leave their town in order not to be lynched and the boy had no support at the trial.  There is also no record (written or otherwise) of him confessing and at the "trial" he denied he had ever confessed.  His sister who is still alive says they were together that day and there's absolutely no way he was involved in the death of the two girls.  This is so sick and what's even worse is that in the comments to the yahoo article quite a few people seem to be ok with what happened.

The land of the free.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Another reminder of what a disgusting place the American South was.

they'd still be executing children if the SCOTUS allowed them to.

Indeed. Only Southern states (if we count Missouri as one) had executed juvenilles between 1977 and 2003. On the other hand, a number of non-Southern states had juvenilles on death row.