George Stinney, wrongfully convicted African-American teenager (born 1929)

George Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker, and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames, – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death on a single day in April 1944 and then executed by electric chair on June 16, 1944, after Governor Olin D. Johnston refused to grant him clemency.

June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 198 days remain until the end of the year.