George Stinney Jr. World Human Rights Day Anniversary Commemoration

George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.n 2004, George Frierson, a local historian who grew up in Alcolu, started researching the case after reading a newspaper article about it.