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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

South Carolina admits error in executing black teen in 1944

south carolina admits error in executing black teen in 1944

More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in the killings of two white girls in a segregated mill town, a judge threw out the conviction, saying the state committed a great injustice.

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