Friday, November 15, 2013

Murder Charges For The Homeowner Who Killed Renisha McBride!

Renisha McBride was shot and killed earlier this month by a homeowner. He claims self defense.

Dearborn Heights, Michigan. The nation is following the shooting of Renisha McBride. The 19-year old woman was shot in the back of her head after she knocked on the door of a man who claimed "self-defense".

She was involved in an accident and was seeking help.

Theodore Wafer is facing charges. The 54-year old man turned himself in today.

I assure you that once it goes viral, expect the conservative agitators to take the side of the shooter. Expect That Guy Who Helped Obama Win get the first interview with Wafer.

Loserville will make this another event where they can tag this to President Barack Obama.

Theodore Wafer.
Expect Oprah Winfrey (and most of Black America) to be proven right once the junk food media makes this situation go viral. Because in a WHITE ON BLACK CRIME event, the suspect is innocent until proven guilty. The racial extremist will always look upon the president and Black America as the agitators of racism.

Every crime in America caused by a Black person, likely 90% of the time the suspect is caught and given lengthy prison sentence. Of course, in BLACK ON WHITE CRIME events, the suspect is caught. The racial extremist assumes all Black, Hispanic and worshiping Muslims are guilty until proven innocent. And if they're found innocent, they'll blame President Barack Obama.

If a White person commits a crime and it reaches the junk food media, it's often ignored unless its a "hot teacher" or a "mentally insane shooter"

Wafer had said he believed the woman was trying to break into his home about 3:40 a.m. Nov. 2.

McBride’s family believes she may have been seeking assistance following her crash into a parked car about an hour earlier when she knocked on Wafer’s shut and locked screen door.

McBride was killed by a shotgun blast to the face, which the prosecutor said was fired through the closed screen, and the homeowner claimed the gun discharged accidentally.

City of Dearborn Heights.
According to dispatch records, Wafer waited about an hour to call 911 to report that he’d shot someone on his front porch.

Toxicology reports released Thursday by the Wayne County medical examiner’s office showed McBride’s blood-alcohol level at the time of her death was 0.218, ten times higher than what’s permitted for drivers younger than 21, and marijuana was also detected.
Burying Renisha McBride was the most saddest day for her family.
But Dr. Werner Spitz, the longtime Wayne County medical examiner and one of the preeminent experts in forensic pathology, reviewed the report and said that the level of THC, which is the active ingredient in marijuana, was low enough to suggest that she hadn’t used it the day of her death.

The shooting of McBride, who is black, prompted comparisons to the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

Perennial Loser Mitt Romney: One Year Later, Still A Failure!

One year later they still continue to be total asshole.

CBS This Morning had the opportunity to meet Mr. and Mrs. Condescending. They come back to reflect on their days on the election trail and the great epic fail of Obamacare.

Perennial loser Mitt Romney had an opportunity to get a dig at President Barack Obama's handling of the healthcare law.

With Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell, the perennial loser and Ann spoke out against the president's "honesty".

"What starts twisted stays twisted," says the perennial loser to Charlie Rose.

"The real problem that the president has is a broken promise. That’s of course, what’s really striking at the heart of his term."

"When the systems are working, people will still lose, and already have, millions of people losing their insurance they were promised they would not," he continued.

"And you think the president lied to the American people on purpose for a political gain?" Rose asked.

Norah O'Donnell asks the perennial loser if the fighting within the Republican Party could damage their chances in the 2016 presidential election.

"The place that my campaign, and I, fell short was probably being able to speak openly and effectively to minority populations," he confessed.

"So, do you now favor an immigration proposal?" O’Donnell asked.

"I am absolutely convinced that the Republican Party must deal with immigration," Romney asserted.

I'm assuring that the Republican controlled House of Representatives will fail at pass comprehensive immigration reform. I won't make a $10,000 bet to prove a point.

Oprah: Low Polls For Obama Are Likely Due To His Race!

Oprah is telling the truth. President Barack Obama suffers because of his race.

I agree in a way that is never said before. You have to really be that bad to have a job approval in the 30s.

It seems like President Barack Obama is struggling for success with a job approval in the toilet.

His biggest supporter and fellow Chicagoan spoke to the British press about America's still long road to equal rights. She tells the interviewer that since growing up, she thought that racism is still marinated and embedded in those who would never accept President Barack Obama.

Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul who has a very strong impact here in the United States and abroad. She allocates to the apartheid in South Africa and the red hot disrespect towards President Obama.

She even reference the infamous "YOU LIE" incident by South Carolina Republican lawmaker Joe Wilson.

She stated that if the racial extremists would die, then maybe we will get progress.

"There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die," she said.

Gompertz also asked her if it had ever crossed her mind that President Obama has faced racism.

"Probably it's crossed my mind more times than it's crossed your mind," Oprah replied. "...I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it."

Conservatives pounced on it.

Most conservatives hate being called racist. They believe that it's a product of Oprah and the president's constant tricks to make the Republicans look like the bad guys!

Loserville even jumped into the fray by saying that most racists are accustomed to being a part of the "Left".

So the conservative network is saying racism exists but only on the left.

The Black and Hispanic community aren't keen to the Republican Party. The only Republican so far to win a election with a strong showing of Black or Hispanic votes is New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

The most recent Republican to see a deficit in the Black and Hispanic vote is Ken Cuccinelli. And he had a Black running mate. But he lost his bid for Virginia governor.

Homework assignment: Name three individuals in the junk food media who are considerable in their racial extremism?  It does matter if they're Republican or Democrat. It doesn't matter if the person is White, Hispanic or Black.

If you got a name, lay it down for us here at Journal de la Reyna.



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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Loserville Is Most The Trusted? Yeah Right!

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What is the Media Research Center smoking on?









I click on That Guy Who Throw Shit To The Wall's website and as usual more stories that focus on Black crime. More stories trying to mislead readers about the healthcare law. And the most ridiculous thing is a link to Newsbusters.

Newbusters is a conservative media watchdog group that covers allegations of liberal bias in the junk food media. It's founded by right wing extremist Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.

Noel Shepard, editor-in-chief of the conservative blog takes an unscientific poll to prove that Loserville is the most fairest in coverage of the healthcare law and President Barack Obama.

Mr. Shepard, you really have to be fucking stupid. Not only that network has misled its gullible audience with numerous accusations towards the president but this network has sparked confusion, accusation and malcontent towards his allies in the Democratic Party or individuals they deem inferior to the conservative movement.

YouGov, a polling firm that associate with Loserville on occasions have conducted a survey of who's the most trustworthy in the healthcare debate.

They concluded when Americans are asked to pick the one source of information about the new health care law that they trust the most, Loserville tops the list. Most trusted by 19% of Americans, the basic cable news channel narrowly beats out 'friends and family' (17%).

President Obama (11%) is the third most trusted source, followed by National Public Radio (10%) and people's own insurance companies (9%).

So let me get this straight! If Loserville is telling their viewers and listeners about the healthcare law in a highly negative fashion, those family and friends will tell others. The constant harping of the likes of the turdporters, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, Greta The Ambulance Chaser, Bill-O, and the Bow Tie Manchild have also made the law more toxic.

Loserville has stroked the most contentious and outlandish attacks against the healthcare law.

The Republican lawmakers have avoided explaining the law to their constituents. They spent a majority of their time in the House and Senate trying to undermine the law and the president.
The Republican Party's press secretary.
They have a big microphone with the junk food media. Loserville and talk radio have motivate pessimistic WHITE PEOPLE to not sign up. It's a requirement by law for all Americans to have insurance coverage.

The WHITE PEOPLE who are fixated on phobias and irrationality are likely to be the driving force to having criticism towards the law.

Republicans are the party of WHITE MEN and EXTREMISTS.

Loserville is the press secretary of the Republican Party.

They made it no secret they attack the president on the most trivial things. From Dijon mustard to Trayvon Martin. From golf outings to his birth certificate.

Loserville has been in the forefront of the lies and hateful rhetoric of President Barack Obama, the Black and Latino communities.

They are plotting for a Republican takeover of Congress. They know the law will work. They've played every card they could afford. They've delayed the law and took it to court.

And despite the fallout, I believe that the law will work for the good of all Americans.

Democrats are spineless. They fear the reactionary. They fear the Republicans could take back Congress and drive this country back into the crapper.

If you are disappointed about the healthcare rollout, that's fine. Understand. Hear you loud and clear.

But seriously, all the hoopla and knee capping isn't necessary. It's just plain silly.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Republicans All Of Sudden Love Bill Clinton!

"The president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they've got," Clinton told OZY.com.
Bill Clinton criticizes the healthcare law giving Republicans more ammunition to repeal it.

The former President of The United States speaks to an online show and Republicans pounce on it.

Calling President Barack Obama a liar over "you can keep" is like saying former president George W. Bush saying Iraq harbored "weapons of mass destruction".

One clear difference of  Obama and Bush. Obama never sent people into war. Although he's a war president, he didn't lead American soldiers into Iraq. Bush did and has no regrets over misleading the nation into it.

The healthcare law is an ongoing obsession for the Republicans and its allies of the conservative movement.

They spent a majority of legislative time trying to repeal or defund the law. Like most lawmakers, they are to inform their constituents of the changes in the law. Most Republicans spent a majority of their time telling their constituents that they think "OBAMACARE" is a threat to the heart of America.

Now the left is really pissed at Bill Clinton. He speaks ill about the greatest achievement in President Barack Obama's legacy. He talks about it and the conservative agitators are saying "AH-HA, WE TOLD YOU SO!"

Now some liberal agitators are so pissed at Clinton, they promised that Hillary Clinton will suffer because of this. The liberals are threatening to derail a potential Hillary Clinton nomination.

Clinton said: "The president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they've got. [However], we're better off with this program than we are without it."

Even former vice president Dick Cheney is speaking favorably of Clinton's comments.

The House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has put his tissues in his purse. He goes forth with a statement saying "RIGHT ON BILL! RIGHT ON!"

Many think that the former president's comments have a negative impact on the law. Clinton's comments derail the White House talking points.
Boehner was weeping tears of joy when former president Bill Clinton spoke about the problems with the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans are obsessed with repealing the law.
The Affordable Healthcare Act was signed into law in 2010 and its been the scorn of Republicans.

The Republicans repealed the law over 45 times and even contested it in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled it valid and handed Republicans a huge defeat.

So during its implications, the legislators failed at addressing their constituents and hence forth a bunch of misinformed Americans who believe in "death panels".

Loserville and conservative agitators have spread malicious information about the law. It may force individuals to ignore the law and pay penalties for no complying.

Bill Clinton's comments have implications to the general electorate. He's still a popular figure.

What do you think of the comments?

Were they out of line, or in the place of what the situation is?

Do you think these comments could impact a potential Hillary Clinton bid for president?



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Two months ago, the former president speaks about the healthcare law in a positive way.

The Face Of The Healthcare Marketplace Got Death Threats!

The model for Healthcare.gov told the junk food media that she face "death threats" and rampant harassment online.

It seems like conservatives and the reactionary have no shame when it comes to their fellow Americans.

The model who was on the beginning page of the Healthcare Marketplace is being severely harassed by those arm chair assholes.

Ever since it's launch, the Healthcare.gov website has been experiencing problems. All I've heard for the last few weeks is the talk of the website and not the law. I've heard turdporters and agitators in the media complain about the website day in and day out.

So much distortion and half truths plague the media. This has probably made the rollout a whole lot worse when you're the "official face" of the law.

The woman only identified as "Adriana" has spoke to ABC News about the ordeal.
Screenshot of young woman was removed.
When her face was the first thing you see when you went to the website, no one would expect her face to become a viral sensation.

Adriana, who asked that only her first name be used, said she was speaking out now to defend herself after weeks of enduring online lampooning.

"They have nothing else to do but hide behind the computer. They're cyberbullying," Adriana told ABC News' Amy Robach.

The picture was ultimately pulled from the front page, which Adriana called a "relief."

"They took the picture down. I wanted the picture down, and they wanted the picture down. I don't think anybody wanted to focus on the picture," she said.

But a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told ABC that the photo was not removed because Adriana requested it.

Married for more than six years with a 21-month old son, Adriana reached out to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to inquire about having photos of her family taken in exchange for permitting their use on the website. She was notified in the summer that her photo would be used on the front page.

Calling herself "pure Colombian," Adriana said she's lived in the United States for more than six years and is applying for citizenship. Her husband is an American citizen.

Amy Robach of ABC News confirmed that she has breast cancer and its planning on having a double mastectomy in the coming months. Right now she will contribute to 20/20 while Elizabeth Vargas is out on medical leave for alcoholism and depression.

She was a victim of hateful rhetoric as well.

Richard Cohen: Bill de Blasio's Mixed Family Makes Me Puke!

Washington Post opinion columnist wrote another aim at the Black community. Could this attack be the end of his longtime career at the newspaper?

Richard Cohen maybe one sentence away from a pink slip after he made an offensive comment about mayor-elect of New York City, Bill de Blasio and his family.

He claims that biracial families make him "PUKE".

As usual, the Washington Post opinion writer pens a piece criticizing Black people.

In turn he's criticizing the interracial family. Bill de Blasio is married to a Black woman.

And he's got a miserable history of inflammatory statements criticizing the Black community in general.

Cohen wrote a column in 1986 which argued owners of jewelry stores were right to refuse to allow entry to young black men because of a fear of crime. This column led to the Washington Post having to apologize.

Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin in July 2013, Cohen wrote "a controversial column in which he defends George Zimmerman's suspicion of Travyon Martin and calls on politicians to acknowledge that a disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by black males".

The column went on to say that Cohen "can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize;" in any case, he also points out that:
New York City elected Bill de Blasio as their mayor. Conservative mounted a full scale attack on de Blasio and his family.
"What I'm trying to deal with is, I'm trying to remove this fear from racism. I don't think it's racism to say, 'this person looks like a menace,'" 

"Now, a menace in another part of the country could be a white guy wearing a wife-beater under-shirt. Or, if you're a black guy in the South and you come around the corner and you see a member of the Ku Klux Klan".

Towards the end of the column, Cohen calls Trayvon Martin "a young man understandably suspected because he was black".

On November 4, 2013, Cohen wrote a column about the much talked about Oscar buzz film “12 Years a Slave”, in which he evinced personal ignorance of the history of slavery in the U.S. and a negative view of abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, writing: "Instead, beginning with school, I got a gauzy version. I learned that slavery was wrong, yes, that it was evil, no doubt, but really, that many blacks were sort of content. Slave owners were mostly nice people — fellow Americans, after all — and the sadistic Simon Legree was the concoction of that demented propagandist, Harriet Beecher Stowe."

Shortly afterwards, on November 11, in the course of a column about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Cohen referred to the recent victory of Bill De Blasio as Mayor of New York, writing:

"People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children." 

This statement was widely condemned.

Anyway, what's your opinion of it?

Me and S. Baldwin explained this multiple times.

Color doesn't matter. As long as individuals share a common interest and love for one another, it's satisfaction. I don't discriminate against a person's race when it comes to relationships.

Cohen is entitled to be a blowhard conservative bigot. He's perfectly fine. I mean after he's fired from The Washington Post, maybe he'll get a job with people he'll feel comfortable with.

They're hiring over at the Loserville Nation, Breitfart and WorldNutDaily.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Ease Up on WaPo's Richard Cohen, As of Last Week He's Totally Down with ...

Trisha Goddard Tells Neo-Nazi That He's Got A Little Black In Him!

Trisha Goddard tries to fist bump Neo Nazi Craig Cobb after she revealed that he's got a Black descendant.

Remember that story about a Neo-Nazi wanting to uproot a North Dakota town and boot that one Black man out. He's making the rounds on a syndicated talk show to discuss his goals. Craig Cobb, founder of white nationalist social networking website called Podblanc, went to The Trisha Show and got a earful from the British born tabloid talker.

Trisha Goddard is a British born television presenter and motivational speaker. Goddard is a protege of Murray Povich. She hosts her own show on most syndicates across the country. It's in its third season and it's getting more juicier.

On an episode of Trisha, the host has two extremists on to discuss race issues in the United States.


One being Shahrazad Ali, the woman who got into a heated confrontation with Frank Taaffe, the "friend" of acquitted shooter George Zimmerman. Taaffe is a controversial figure because of his recent statements of Black people.

In the middle of a segment, Goddard revealed a DNA test to the Neo-Nazi. She tells Cobb that he has 14% Sub-Saharan African and 86% of European.

He got really pissed when he heard the news.

She even tried to agitate a fist bump with the extremist. He quickly rejected the fist bump and the DNA statistics.

Craig Cobb is a notorious figure in the White nationalists circles. Most extremists think of him as a "showboater". He does things that go against the creed of WHITE POWER.

He claims "racism is my religion" and advocates "racial holy war" in accordance with the tenets of The Creativity Movement.
Trisha Goddard hands the news to Neo-Nazi Craig Cobb.
Cobb gained notoriety within anti-racist and anti-fascist movements and legal advocacy organizations that investigate hate speech and hate crime for his "celebration of violence and murder committed against minorities" as documented in his video recordings, online activities, and disruptions at public events.

Cobb relocated to western North Dakota due to its supply of high-paying jobs at oil fields and high proportion of white residents. He claimed that he was fired from a job due to disagreements with a co-worker, and that he lost a job with a Fargo paving company after there was media coverage of his settlement plans.

While Cobb was working in Watford City, North Dakota, he found on Craigslist that there were lots available for sale in Leith, North Dakota. He moved there in 2012.

As of October 2013, Cobb resides in Leith, where he is trying to create a white supremacist community.

He reportedly owns at least 13 plots of land in the town. Several other prominent white supremacists, including April Gaede and her husband, also own land in Leith.

That one Black man in Leith, ND is married to a White woman. Craig Cobb wants to boot that Nigger out of his town.
He has transferred ownership of two plots to fellow white supremacists Alex Linder and Tom Metzger. Another white supremacist, Jeff Schoep, visited Leith in late September 2013 in order to support Cobb, and he brought several fellow members of the National Socialist Movement with him.

Several former members of Anti-Racist Action formed a peaceful, grassroots movement called UnityND and began organizing a demonstration of their own in Leith, that would protest against both Cobb and Schoep. Several hundred people attended the protests against Cobb and his allies, including hundreds of members of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

As a reaction to Cobb's planned takeover of Leith, some have even advocated disbanding Leith and dissolving it into Grant County proper. Cobb stated that he will pursue to file a restraining order against the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

James Carville: Obama Should Toke A Crackpipe! He'll Be Popular Like [Toronto's] Mayor Rob Ford!

Tasteless joke by a hack Democratic strategist has riled up the conservatives.

James Carville is a former Bill Clinton strategist and married to Republican operative Mary Matlin.

He's called the RAGING CAJAN because of his combative debates. He misses them days over at CNN because Crossfire now has Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Van Jones and Stephanie Cutter hosting the show.

He and his wife were regular contributors to CNN. They were given the ax this year and now they appear on random competitors from time to time.

He's a "free agent" over at Loserville and Obama News. And whenever they invite him or his wife Matlin on, expect something crazy to come out of their mouths.

On Monday's Morning Joe, Carville was discussing the president's downward spiral in the polls.

He makes a "joke" about the president taking a cue from the embattled Canadian mayor Rob Ford.

Ford, the mayor of Toronto is facing heavy scrutiny after it was revealed that he was under the influence of cocaine and crack during his time as mayor. Gawker and other junk food media figures are paying huge sums to see the video of Ford toking a pipe.

The conservatives zeroed in on his notable quirk:

“I think the best thing he can do is take a toke on the mayor of Toronto’s crack pipe, because his numbers are about 48.”

For one thing, that's pretty dumb for someone to say that. If Carville really wanted to raise eyebrows, he could have said, "You know Obama could have his own Monica! It saved Bill Clinton!"

The only reason why former president Bill Clinton managed to stay in the high job approval is the onslaught of criticism from Republicans when they were obsessed "Clinton Scandals". The tipping point was the impeachment of Bill Clinton because he had an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.

The Republicans were obsessed with her and Paula Jones. They were trying to get into the personal business of the president. They were trying to have him removed over sex.

In the case of President Barack Obama, it's his race. Carville quipped a "dog whistle". To compare the president to a corrupt mayor is pretty damn stupid.

It's probably why he was cut from CNN. This type of stuff isn't what CNN does. They don't want to be like Obama News and Loserville. They paid a price for neutrality. But in the long run, it may be its determent.

Carville, understand this. It's mostly his race that drives his polls down.

Because White voters are the most pessimistic when it comes to the economy. They are the most impatient when it comes to the healthcare law.

While a website isn't the full package of the American Healthcare Act, the ongoing stories about this stupid website and the minor problems that came when it was launched, this has dragged his job approval down.

For the three years since its passage, Congress hasn't motivate its constituents about the law. The Republicans and its conservative allies have deliberately misled and distort the law. The president's most staunch critics will not sign up for the healthcare benefits no matter what he tells them. The critics will then tell others to avoid the website.

People like That Guy Who Helped Obama Win have been notorious in misleading the public about the healthcare law.

Carville is friends with That Guy.

Another thing, he can't get nothing done with this inept Congress.

So I don't see where he can get an aggressive agenda done when you see either John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Kelly Ayotte, Mike Rogers, Steve King, Louie Gohmert, and David Vitter on every freaking news program!

They have no accomplishments other than the amount of time they spend in a front of a camera.

They haven't done much and yet we keep electing them.

So to James Carville and others like him, shut the fuck up!

The president is fine. He will do whatever he can to help the United States move forward. He will try to get things done with this lame ass Congress. Obama will succeed.



Monday, November 11, 2013

Tariq Nasheed: Intelligent Black Men vs. The Negro Bed Wench Mentality

A Vindication For George Stinney?

A 14-year old boy was given the zapper for "allegedly killing" two little White girls in South Carolina. Now about 70 years later, they want to clear his name.

Only in the segregated South, a young Black teen would be executed for allegedly killing two white girls.

And without probable cause and a whole lot of heresy, a 14-year old boy was sent to the zapper.

On the shaky confession and a sense of injustice, a boy dies for just being in the minds of the townspeople, a "natural born criminal".

Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8, in Alcolu, located in Clarendon County, South Carolina, on March 23, 1944.

Alcolu was a small, working class, mill town where whites and blacks were separated by railroad tracks.

The girls had disappeared while out riding their bicycles looking for flowers. As they passed the Stinney property, they asked young George Stinney and his sister, Katherine, if they knew where to find "maypops", a type of flower.

When the girls did not return, search parties were organized, with hundreds of volunteers. The bodies of the girls were found the next morning in a ditch filled with muddy water. Both had suffered severe head wounds.

Stinney was convicted of murdering two pre-teen girls after police said he confessed to the murders. But the question of Stinney's guilt, the validity of his alleged confession, and the judicial process leading to his execution have been criticized as "suspicious at best and a miscarriage of justice at worst", and as an example of the many injustices African-Americans suffered in courtrooms in the United States in the first half of the 20th century.

Following his arrest, Stinney's father was fired from his job and his parents and siblings were given the choice of leaving town or be lynched. The family was forced to flee, leaving the 14-year-old child with no support during his 81-day confinement and trial. His trial, including jury selection, lasted just one day.

Stinney's court-appointed attorney was a tax commissioner preparing to run for office. There was no court challenge to the testimony of the three police officers who claimed that Stinney had confessed, although that was the only evidence presented. There were no written records of a confession. Three witnesses were called for the prosecution: the man who discovered the bodies of the two girls and the two doctors who performed the post mortem.

No witnesses were called for the defense. The trial before a completely white jury and audience (African-Americans were not allowed entrance) lasted two-and-a-half hours. The jury took ten minutes to deliberate before it returned with a guilty verdict.

The execution of George Stinney was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, on June 16, 1944. At 7:30 p.m., Stinney walked to the execution chamber with a Bible under his arm, which he later used as a booster seat in the electric chair.

Standing 5 foot 2 inches (157 cm) tall and weighing just over 90 pounds (40 kg), his size (relative to the fully grown prisoners) presented difficulties in securing him to the frame holding the electrodes. Nor did the state's adult-sized face-mask fit him; as he was hit with the first 2,400 V surge of electricity, the mask covering his face slipped off, “revealing his wide-open, tearful eyes and saliva coming from his mouth”...After two more jolts of electricity, the boy was dead."

Stinney was declared dead within four minutes of the initial electrocution. From the time of the murders until Stinney's execution, eighty-one days had passed.

The Huffington Post reports that the South Carolina Attorney General's Office will likely argue the other side of the case before the Clarendon County judge. A spokesman said their lawyers had not seen the motion and do not comment on pending cases. A date for a hearing on the matter has not been set.

The request for a new trial has an uphill climb. The judge may refuse to hear it at all, since the punishment was already carried out. Also, South Carolina has strict rules for introducing new evidence after a trial is complete, requiring the information to have been impossible to discover before the trial and likely to change the results, said Kenneth Gaines, a professor at the University of South Carolina's law school.

"I think it's a longshot, but I admire the lawyer for trying it," Gaines said, adding that he's not aware of any other executed inmates in the state being granted a new trial posthumously.

The request for a new trial is largely symbolic, but Stinney's supporters say they would prefer exoneration to a pardon.

Stinney's case intersects some long-running disputes in the American legal system — the death penalty and race. At 14, he's the youngest person executed in the United States in past 100 years. He was electrocuted just 84 days after the girls were killed in March 1944.

The request for a new trial includes sworn statements from two of Stinney's siblings who say he was with them the entire day the girls were killed. Notes from Stinney's confession and most other information deputies and prosecutors used to convict Stinney in a one-day trial have disappeared along with any transcript of the proceedings. Only a few pages of cryptic, hand-written notes remain, according to the motion.

"It was strange to see them in our area, because white people stayed on their side of Alcolu and we knew our place," Ruffner wrote.

The girls never came home and hundreds of people searched for them through the night. They were found the next morning in a water-filled ditch, their heads beaten with a hard object, likely a railroad spike.

Deputies got a tip the girls had been seen talking to Stinney. They came to Stinney's home and took him away. His family wouldn't see the boy again until after his trial. Newspaper accounts suggested a lynch mob was nearly formed to attack the teen in jail.

Stinney's dad worked for the major mill in town and lived in a company house. He was ordered to leave after his son was arrested, said Stinney's brother Charles Stinney, who was 12 when his older brother was arrested. Charles Stinney's statement explains why the family didn't speak to authorities at the time.

"George's conviction and execution was something my family believed could happen to any of us in the family. Therefore, we made a decision for the safety of the family to leave it be," Charles Stinney wrote in his sworn statement.

Charles Stinney said he remembered the events vividly because "for my family, Friday, March 24, 1944, and the events that followed were our personal 9/11."

Both statements were made in 2009. Lawyer Steve McKenzie said he planned to file the request for a new trial then, but heard from a man in Tennessee who claimed his grandfather was with George Stinney the day of the killings. McKenzie thought the information from someone not related to Stinney would be especially powerful, but the person suddenly stopped cooperating after stringing the lawyers along for years.

The request for a new trial points out that at 95 pounds, Stinney likely couldn't have killed the girls and dragged them to the ditch.

The motion also hints at community rumors of a deathbed confession from a white man several years ago and the possibility Stinney either confessed because his family was threatened or he was given ice cream. But the court papers provide little information and the lawyers also wouldn't elaborate.

At 14, Stinney was the youngest person executed in this country in the past 100 years, according to statistics gathered by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Newspaper stories from his execution had witnesses saying the straps to keep him in the electric chair didn't fit around his small frame and an electrode was too big for his leg.

Executing teens wasn't uncommon at that time. Florida put a 16-year-old boy to death for rape in 1944 and Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas executed 17-year-olds that year.

Lawyers also filed a request for to pardon Stinney before the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services in case the new trial is not granted.

There is precedent for that. In 2009, two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner were pardoned by the board nearly 100 years after they were sent to the electric chair in the death of a Confederate Army veteran. Joyner's lawyers showed evidence the men were framed by a small-time criminal who took a plea deal that saved his life and testified against them.

But Frierson said a pardon would be little comfort to him in the Stinney case. "The first step in a pardon is to admit you are wrong and ask for forgiveness. This boy did nothing wrong," Frierson said.

This is the movie Carolina Skeletons. Based off the novel from David Stout and based similarly to the George Stinney situation.

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