1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.

Police arrested 14-year-old George Stinney, as a suspect. They said that he confessed to the crime to them.^[2][3] There was no written record of his confession apart from notes provided by an investigating deputy.^[4] 

No transcript was recorded of the brief trial. Stinney was convicted of first-degree murder of the two girls in less than 10 minutes by an all-white jury, during a one-day trial. 

A group of lawyers and activists investigated the Stinney case on behalf of his family. In 2013 the family petitioned for a new trial. On December 17, 2014, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70 years after his execution, because the circuit court judge ruled that he had not been given a fair trial; he had no effective defense representation and his Sixth Amendment rights had been violated.