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TIL of 14 year old George Stinney, one of the youngest ever executed via electric chair, in 1944. Wrongfully convicted of murdering two white girls (aged 7 & 11), his frame was so small his face mask slipped off after the initial electric shock . His conviction was vacated in 2014.

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