A South Carolina judge has thrown out the 1944 murder conviction of George Stinney Jr., who had been convicted of murdering two young white girls whose heads were smashed with something like a railroad spike. Stinney, 14 years old, was tried in two hours and found guilty after ten minutes of deliberation -- by an all-white jury, of course -- and sentenced to death. It was a model of speedy justice, Jim Crow style, summarized here by The Washington Post's Lindsey Bever:
Conservatives don't trust the government to deliver the mail, collect taxes, educate, etc. But somehow they have complete faith it can execute citizens flawlessly.
If Gubnor Big Chief Pretty Hair Rick Perry (R-Goat Fucker) was asked about this his comment would be "Why did it take em two months to fry that kid?"
It is true that victim&#039;s families find it hard to let go of what they think is the truth. We had a similar case here in Canada back 50 years ago- except the kid was white. Stephen Truscott was 14 when he was accused, tried, convicted and sentenced to death for killing a school friend. The powers that be decided maybe it wasn&#039;t cool to kill a child, so his sentence was commuted to life, and then eventually he was released, and later investigations revealed two adult males stationed at a nearby air force base who the police should have known had priors: &quot; a heavy drinker with a history of sexual offences who lived within a 20-minute drive of the base. The air force sergeant had come to police attention after trying to lure a 10-year-old girl into his car about three weeks before Harper disappeared. Another man, an electrician with a conviction for rape, worked regularly at the base and knew the Harpers.&quot; <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news2/bac..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/truscott/index...">http://www.cbc.ca/news2/bac...
Luckily Truscott got to still be alive when he was exonerated in 2007. AND he got 6.5 million in compensation.
But the victim&#039;s family still believes he did it, even with all the evidence to the contrary.
So ... we can expect to see a &quot;Whoops! My Bad!&quot; for this year&#039;s actions, circa 2084?
Too much horribleness.
One down, just a few thousands more to go!
Conservatives don&#039;t trust the government to deliver the mail, collect taxes, educate, etc. But somehow they have complete faith it can execute citizens flawlessly.
Up next - the crew from Fox &#039;n Friends blathers on about how his conviction is all Obama&#039;s fault.
The more things change...
If Gubnor Big Chief Pretty Hair Rick Perry (R-Goat Fucker) was asked about this his comment would be &quot;Why did it take em two months to fry that kid?&quot;
It is true that victim&#039;s families find it hard to let go of what they think is the truth. We had a similar case here in Canada back 50 years ago- except the kid was white. Stephen Truscott was 14 when he was accused, tried, convicted and sentenced to death for killing a school friend. The powers that be decided maybe it wasn&#039;t cool to kill a child, so his sentence was commuted to life, and then eventually he was released, and later investigations revealed two adult males stationed at a nearby air force base who the police should have known had priors: &quot; a heavy drinker with a history of sexual offences who lived within a 20-minute drive of the base. The air force sergeant had come to police attention after trying to lure a 10-year-old girl into his car about three weeks before Harper disappeared. Another man, an electrician with a conviction for rape, worked regularly at the base and knew the Harpers.&quot; <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news2/bac..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/truscott/index...">http://www.cbc.ca/news2/bac...
Luckily Truscott got to still be alive when he was exonerated in 2007. AND he got 6.5 million in compensation.
But the victim&#039;s family still believes he did it, even with all the evidence to the contrary.
Klan logic: The kid (was black) may have *thought* (was black) about doing (was black) something (was black) bad once, so fair is fair.
Stand your ground also saves valuable time