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