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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.

Houston Party Shooting Ended With Two Killed!

Queric Richardson was murdered by two ignorant young men during an escalation at a Houston area birthday party.

Two high school students lives were lost at a birthday party in the Houston neighborhood of Cypress.

The Harris County Sheriff and Houston Metro Police found the individuals who committed the act.

I mean it's not even safe to even have a simple gathering among friends.

The shooters Willie Young, 21, and Randy Stewart, 18 were responsible for the act. They will be charged for capital murder as they await trial. They could get the gas chamber for this.

The Houston Chronicle and Associated Press report that the teenager who attended a large house party where two Cypress Springs High School students died says gunshots began in the house and continued outside as people ran into the streets seeking cover.

Shaniqua Brown, 17, says Saturday evening's birthday party "was not rowdy at all," and many people were dancing when they heard the shots.

Authorities are seeking two gunmen who are ages 17 and 22.

A man and a woman were killed in the shooting, said Sheriff Adrian Garcia. Queric Richardson, 17, died at the party and a 16-year-old girl at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital. The victims have not been named but Garcia said both attended Cypress Springs High School.

According to friends, both deceased teens attended Morton Ranch High School in the Katy Independent School District.

Richardson, a junior, who would have turned 18 on Thursday was remembered as a generous and humorous guy who loved to play basketball.

Britnee Segura, a 16-year-old junior at Morton Ranch High, was stunned to learn about the shootings when she awoke on Sunday, checked her Instagram account and saw her friend's photo with "RIP" in the comments.

She said she soon spoke to Queric's brother, Lawrence Guidry, by phone, who confirmed the death.

"He just said that he was hurt," she explained.

At least 19 others were wounded in the shooting, said Garcia.

The party was advertised on Twitter as an 18th birthday celebration with the hashtag #Fab3HouseParty. Brown said word about the party was also spread through Instagram, a photo-sharing app and website.

Garcia said promoting the party on social media likely invited strangers to the home.

He said evidence indicates that there was no one-on-one confrontation prior to the shooting.

The initial investigation indicates that someone pulled a pistol and fired one celebratory shot into the air, he said.

"Someone else recklessly reacted to the gunfire and shoots into the crowd," said Garcia, adding that about 10 shots were fired.


The Sheriff called the incident a "a horrible combination of immaturity, access to a firearm and the inability to control oneself."

Garcia said social media "caused part of the problem we're dealing with," but said social media could also help find the suspects.

"We are asking those armed with social media to help the Harris County Sheriff's Office bring closure to this incident," he said. "If you, out there, know someone involved in this case … I ask you to use your smart phone and download IWatchHarrisCounty (app)."

Partygoers scrambled after the first shots were fired about 11 p.m. at the home in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529, said Brown.

Pools of blood were visible outside the two-story brick home Sunday morning, and the garage door was bent after people had pushed it upward while trying to escape.

Members of Mariah Boulden's family clean up the mess.

More than 100 people, mostly young adults, were at a house celebrating Mariah Boulden's birthday, said Thomas Gilliland, spokesman with the Sheriff's Office.

One of the wounded included a female, who was sent by Lifeflight helicopter ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The others shot have injuries ranging from serious to non-life threatening, said Gilliland. Some were shot in the foot or ankle. Others were shot in the hip, he said. Most of the injured were from 17 to 20 and were taken to five area hospitals.

Three others not shot, but hurt in the incident, also were taken to a hospital, Gilliland said. They reported injuries such as twisted ankles. One neighbor said she thought a teen broke his leg trying to jump her fence as he fled the gunfire.

After the shooting, people were making a mad rush to get out of the house, he said. Witnesses told deputies that some people broke second-floor windows and jumped.

So many people were trying to get out of the garage, they forced the garage door forward and pushed it off its tracks, Gilliland said.

When deputies arrived, they saw some people lying on the ground and others running.

"It was a pretty chaotic scene," Gilliland said.

Mariah Boulden's birthday party went horribly wrong.

Hours after the shooting, A. Henry described how the celebration turned into terror.


He was in the house, near the kitchen when he heard the first shots.

"It sounded like a balloon popping," said the 19-year-old Cypress Springs graduate.

Partygoers suddenly got quiet, he said, then the gunfire returned.

Henry said he thinks he heard between 10 and 12 shots fired, but was uncertain because the situation was hectic. The shooting seems to last between three to five minutes, he said.

At one point, he was trying to move people toward the garage to help them and himself out. He saw two people on the floor, bleeding.

Uncertainty crossed his mind.

"I hope I make it out alive," he recalled thinking.

Karen Briones was visiting relatives in the neighborhood when they heard the shooting, she said.

She saw the party earlier Saturday when on her way to a convenience store. After Briones returned to her relatives' home, on the other side of the neighborhood, they heard gunfire. She and a few relatives drove back down the street to investigate, she said.

"Girls were crying and screaming, banging on people's doors asking them for help and to call 911," Briones said.

Members of the press taking graphic pictures.

The party was advertised on Twitter as an 18th birthday celebration. Brown said word about the party was also spread through Instagram, a photo-sharing app and website.

At least one parent was in the house, said Christina Garza, a spokeswoman with the sheriff's office.

No drugs or alcohol are suspected in the shooting.

Garcia said Boulden's mother was in the home during the party.

Bruno Figueroa lives a few houses down the street and said he heard five to 10 shots. He looked out his window and saw a crowd of at least 30 people running down his street.

"Kids were running everywhere," he said.

Figueroa said people suddenly began ducking into back yards and behind vehicles in driveways, apparently trying to hide from a car that was slowly coming down the street. Figueroa said that from his upstairs window he could hear the people who were hiding nearby.

"They were crying, yelling, 'My brother got shot,' 'Why did they do this?'" he said.

Figueroa said as soon as the slow-moving car rounded a corner and then sped away, the people who had been hiding gathered back in the street.

A young future lost to the endless cycle of gun violence.

Okay, we here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the families of Queric Richardson and the young girl.

It's not the guns fault, right?

It's the fault of the hip-hop community and lack of Black fathers!

We don't care where the guns came from! As long as a Black person has a firearm, they're dangerous.

This is the word vomit of the racist right! This is the circular firing squad of ignorance from those arm chair warriors who believe that every incident that happens in Black or the Hispanic community, is completely the fault of President Barack Obama instead of the individual.

As always the racist right will continue to say that it was one of "Obama's sons" in regards to it. Because they already assume that the individuals responsible are future Trayvon Martins.

This Person Think They're Slick....

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ENDA Passed The Senate! House Uncertain!

Congresswoman Krysten Sinema (D-Arizona) is bisexual.

Employment Non Discrimination Act has passed the U.S. Senate. The law will ban employers from discriminating against those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.

It's the first step in the president's second term agenda. He wanted to get gun control and immigration reform passed quickly. It turns out to be the longest road to victory. He can't even get things done with this inept Congress. His agenda has been stalled by the Republicans in the House of Representatives.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is legislation proposed in the United States Congress that would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by employers with at least 15 employees.

ENDA has been introduced in every Congress since 1994 except the 109th. Similar legislation has been introduced without passage since 1974.

The bill gained its best chance at passing after the Democratic Party broke twelve years of Republican Congressional rule in the 2006 midterm elections. In 2007, gender identity protections were added to the legislation for the first time. Some sponsors believed that even with a Democratic majority, ENDA did not have enough votes to pass the House of Representatives with transgender inclusion and dropped it from the bill, which passed the House and then died in the Senate. President George W. Bush threatened to veto the measure. LGBT advocacy organizations and the LGBT community were divided over support of the modified bill.

Most Democrats and some Republicans senators endorsed the EDNA.

In 2009, following Democratic gains in the 2008 elections, and after the divisiveness of the 2007 debate, Rep. Barney Frank introduced a transgender-inclusive version of ENDA. He introduced it again in 2011, and Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced it in the Senate. President Barack Obama supports the bill's passage.

If the ENDA was signed to law, it would address cases where gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender employees have been discriminated against by their employers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Currently, these employees are unable to find protection in the courts because sexual orientation is not considered to be a suspect class by the federal courts and by many U.S. states. Proponents argue that such a law is appropriate in light of the United States Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process to all. Advocates argue that homosexuality is not a "choice" but a personal identity, a claim supported by the American Psychology Association (APA), and that all working people have a right to be judged by the quality of their work performance and not by completely unrelated factors.

According to a study published in 2001 by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, reports of discrimination based on sexual orientation are roughly equal to those on race or gender.

The APA also states that there is significant discrimination against homosexuals in the workforce.

The Congressional Budget Office in 2002 estimated that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's complaint caseload would rise by 5 to 7% as a result of the proposed law. Assessments of the impact of comparable state policies also show a minimal impact on caseload.

Regarding constitutionality, the act incorporates language similar to that of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which has consistently been upheld by the courts.

Chris Christie: I'm Not Throwing My Weight Around!

Republicans hate Chris Christie because he credited President Barack Obama for his handling of Superstorm Sandy. Not caring about the constituents or the massive damage in New Jersey. The Tea Party only cares about defeating President Barack Obama and they don't care who suffers.

Okay, the junk food media has granted New Jersey governor Republican Chris Christie an interview.

Fresh off his landslide victory in a heavily Democratic state, the Republican was facing questions about his future ambitions and the turmoils facing his party.

If you didn't know, now you know! The Republicans are feuding with one another. The so-called establishment (moderate and rank-and-file members) are engaged in a war with the Tea Party, the extremely conservative wing of the Republican Party.

The Stallmigos are making the rounds denouncing Christie for embracing President Barack Obama during the Superstorm Sandy event. The hurricane hit New Jersey a week before the general election.

The Republicans tried a last ditch effort to defeat the president. Republicans were hoping that this could be "Obama's Katrina". They wanted to hammer the president at the time the storm was slamming Atlantic City and New York City.

Their talking points were scrapped when one Republican told the truth and showed bipartisanship in the wake of a tragedy.

Many Republicans believe that Christie hurt perennial loser Mitt Romney chances at winning the election.

They still simmer in anger.

The Republicans aren't keen to a Christie running for president. They claim the junk food media is prepping him up for failure. They fear that if he was to run against a potential Hillary Clinton nomination will spell disaster.

They fear that they could have another set of perennial losers like Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney.


I mean he's a Republican. He's a conservative who hates the unions. He hates the healthcare law. Before the hurricane he wanted to cut benefits from the middle class and the lower class. He doesn't support the LGBT community. He's lowered taxes and balance a budget.

Conservatives question his credentials because of the state's legalization of gay marriage. In the beginning, Christie fought against gay marriage. He gave up on the fight after the state courts turned down his appeal.

Conservatives believe he's giving amnesty to undocumented workers. Christie had propose legislation that advocates support to undocumented workers.

Conservatives also believe that the hug also doomed his credibility as well.

Now Stallmigos Rand Paul  and Ted Cruz have taken shots at Christie for embracing "big gubmint" policies and the "Obama hug". Yeah, even failed gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli is pissed that Christie didn't bring the magic to Virginia in a tight squeaker.

Team Opposition Steve King have openly slammed Christie for supporting "illegals" by giving them access to driver's licenses.

Texas senator John Cornyn also is pissed that Christie allowed a special election to occur instead of appointing a strong conservative senator. He believes that Christie handed a special favor to Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey).

Christie also got the Time Magazine cover.

A controversial cover it was and believe me many saw it as a shot at weight. And of course, many people taunt him because he's a fat guy.

Well in the words of Christie, you got to take it in strive. It's probably giving a hint to the potential of him running for president in 2016.

Because if you're running for president, you got to take every criticism. It's a part of the job. Because you can't escape the insanity of the ankle biters in the junk food media.

Perennial loser Mitt Romney couldn't handle the pressure. He blamed the media for his loss and those lovely 47% of American who depend on "gubmint".

Ironic that his failed bid was stalled at 47%.

Anyway, here's Chris Christie on This Week on ABC News.