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Hearing likely in SC 1944 teen execution.
thestate.com ^ | 12/10/2013 | John Monk

Posted on 12/11/2013 12:22:26 PM PST by armydawg505

MANNING — A one-of-a-kind hearing for a new trial likely will be held next month in Manning during which evidence will be aired in a 69-year-old double murder that ended in the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, the youngest person put to death in the United States in modern times.

“My office is trying to get the court to give us a date when the motion for a new trial can be heard,” 3rd Circuit Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney III said Tuesday.

Earlier this year, Stinney’s family — two surviving Stinney sisters and the surviving brother — retained lawyer Steven McKenzie of Manning to file a 64-page motion for a new trial.

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There is no excuse for executing a 14 year old boy. Having said that, there is no good purpose in trying to take this to another hearing, no evidence exists to change anything other than he said, she said. These concerned citizens would do a lot better concentrating on the problems facing Black Americans today rather than what they faced in 1944.
1 posted on 12/11/2013 12:22:26 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505

Are they going to unexecute him if today’s lawyers find some loophole that should have been used?


2 posted on 12/11/2013 12:27:52 PM PST by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Ingtar

nope but you can hear the cash registers ring as the lawyers sue


3 posted on 12/11/2013 12:31:38 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Ingtar

No, but there could be a big payday for the heirs.


4 posted on 12/11/2013 12:31:40 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: armydawg505

So, it there any practical reason for doing this other than as a PR stunt for the anti-capital punishment crowd?


6 posted on 12/11/2013 12:36:08 PM PST by circlecity
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To: armydawg505

“There is no excuse for executing a 14 year old boy.”

Huh?

I could imagine a reason, not just an excuse.


7 posted on 12/11/2013 12:43:11 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: circlecity

So, it there any practical reason for doing this other than as a PR stunt for the anti-capital punishment crowd?

Let’s see, no witnesses, no transcripts, no evidence, even if the kid was railroaded, and considering when it happened it’s quite possible, how are you going to prove anything? And oh yeah as to their “ he only weighed 95 pounds and stood 5’1”, so what? Where are the measurements for the victims?


8 posted on 12/11/2013 12:43:51 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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"And oh yeah as to their “ he only weighed 95 pounds and stood 5’1”, so what? Where are the measurements for the victims?"

That's about the size of Baby Face Nelson, probably the most vicious and murderous of the depression era bank robber gangsters. I thihk he still holds the record for having killed the most FBI agents.

9 posted on 12/11/2013 12:45:57 PM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

The “wrongly executed” case is always being sought by anti-death penalty proponents along with “American mad cow disease” by the vegan/PETA crowd.

Meanwhile 50+ million children have been put to death by abortionists and there is BIG TIME support in the media. There HAVE been far younger victims of death sentencing than 14 year olds and in total absence of any trial.


10 posted on 12/11/2013 12:47:36 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: ifinnegan
I could imagine a reason, not just an excuse.

It's silly,illogical and just plain wrong to assert that *any* 14 year old is fully formed in terms of conscience,understanding or maturity.The DP can only be justified for people who *are* "fully formed".Of course if a 14 year old commits a serious crime he/she should be subject to *serious* consequences but not the DP.

11 posted on 12/11/2013 12:52:52 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You can’t back up your contention. It’s all emotion on your part.


12 posted on 12/11/2013 12:54:55 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Gay State Conservative

Nonsense. What about the 14 year old who raped and murdered his teacher in Danvers, MA last month? Prime candidate for the death penalty, I would think.

Get me a rope.


13 posted on 12/11/2013 1:23:03 PM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

That’s one opinion. Another is that if you show yourself to be a menace to society by committing murder, execution by the state is in the best interest of society.


14 posted on 12/11/2013 1:23:30 PM PST by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: circlecity

As I recall the case, he was accused of using a 70lb railway tie as a club.


15 posted on 12/11/2013 1:36:34 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Nonsense. What about the 14 year old who raped and murdered his teacher in Danvers, MA last month? Prime candidate for the death penalty, I would think.

Yup,a prime candidate for the DP.Until it's *your* 14 year old,of course.Then it would be "look at that poor boy...he still plays with Legos.He's never even shaved yet".

And no,no child of mine has ever killed.Not at 14...not even at 44.

16 posted on 12/11/2013 1:43:11 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: armydawg505

If the crime is heinous enough, age should have no bearing on capital punishment.


17 posted on 12/11/2013 2:47:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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***There is no excuse for executing a 14 year old boy.***

I remember a 14 year old boy from a mean family who brutally raped and murdered a girl back about 43 years go. He is still in BIG MAC in Oklahoma but should have been fried years ago.


18 posted on 12/11/2013 2:52:07 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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19 posted on 12/11/2013 2:52:13 PM PST by upchuck (I can't stand people that don't know the difference between 'than' and 'then.' Their so stupid...)
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Yup,a prime candidate for the DP.Until it's *your* 14 year old,of course.Then it would be "look at that poor boy...he still plays with Legos.He's never even shaved yet".

You may think that way, but I do not.

20 posted on 12/11/2013 3:21:35 PM PST by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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