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January 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A child psychiatrist said it was her professional opinion that George Stinney Jr.'s alleged confession was "coerced,…
January 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A hearing to determine whether or not an executed teen deserves a new trial ended without a…
January 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A Florida House Republican candidate chose Martin Luther King Day to issue some particularly harsh invective against…
January 21, 2014
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy executed by South Carolina nearly 70 years ago is finally getting another day…
December 16, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - A hearing date has reportedly been set in the push to 'reopen' the case of the youngest…
December 5, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - Wilford 'Johnny' Hunter tells theGrio.com's Todd Johnson he was serving time for car theft in a South…
November 29, 2013
VIDEO - The events leading to the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., began in the tiny mill town of…
November 19, 2013
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing…
November 15, 2013
ST. LOUIS (AP) — No one knows exactly how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed as he crossed the country…
November 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On June 16, 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed in the 20th century...
November 11, 2013
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — George Stinney has been dead since 1944, when as a 14-year-old black boy he became…
September 25, 2013
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio planned to execute a white gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black…
August 5, 2013
STARKE, Florida (AP) - Lawyers for 65-year-old John Errol Ferguson contend their client is mentally ill and has suffered from…
August 2, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The nation's most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug...
July 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Hundreds of protesters are expected to rally across Georgia later today in support of an African-American death-row…
June 26, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it…
June 26, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal…
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening's scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of…
May 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Mississippi inmate has been denied requests for DNA testing and he is set to be executed…
February 20, 2013
JACKSON, Georgia (AP) — A U.S. appeals court halted the execution Tuesday of a Georgia man who killed a fellow…