George Stinney

George Stinney from the album World On Fire by Stacy Jones. Words and Music by Stacy Jones Video by Zak Mueller and Studface Productions The true Story set to music of George Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 - June 16, 1944), was an African American boy who at the age of 14 was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial in 2014, of murdering two young girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June 1944, thus becoming the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century. stacyjonesband.com A Note from Stacy Jones:: "I had just been listening to Paul McCartney talking about the song blackbird. He said "you were only waiting for this moment to arise" was about the black people's struggle in the southern states, and was using the symbolism of a blackbird." I had also just learned about George Stinney in the aftermath of the George Floyd tragedy .. two young men who cried for their mama as they were executed by an unjust criminal system. Thinking about George and how young he was while calling out for his Mom stuck in my head. I was rocking my boy to sleep when the first lines for the chorus came to me of this song. We had this lyric video made. And I have been waiting for this moment to share it with you. Thank you for listening."