Brother of 14-year-old execution victim speaks out (VIDEO)

Brother of 14-year-old execution victim speaks out (VIDEO)

_Brooklyn, New York_ - Charles Stinney said he was never really as social as his older brother George. And he was amazed at how quickly George always finished his school work. "It was such a short time [we had together]," Stinney told theGrio's "Todd Johnson ":http://www.twitter.com/rantoddj in an interview at his Brooklyn home. Click here to view theGrio's slideshow of George Stinney Jr images and history Charles is the brother of the youngest person executed in the US, George Junius Stinney, Jr. "executed at the age of 14.":http://www.thegrio.com/news/was-the-youngest-person-ever-executed-innocent.php He was convicted of killing two white girls in Alcolu, South Carolina in 1944. The details surrounding his conviction and subsequent execution aren't pretty: No written confession exists, no witnesses were called on Stinney's behalf and a jury took some ten minutes to convict the young boy and sentence him to die. **WATCH theGRIO's** TODD JOHNSON **INTERVIEW CHARLES STINNEY HERE:** The two girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and seven-year-old Mary Emma Thames, had crossed paths with George and his sister Katherine Stinney the day the two girls would eventually go missing. Binnicker and Thames' bodies were later found in a ditch the following morning. Click here to view theGrio's original report on the case of George Stinney, Jr. "Everybody knew that he done--even before they had the trial they knew he done it," Lorraine Bailey "said in a radio interview":http://soundportraits.org/on-air/youngest_executed/ in June, 2004. (at the date of the interview, she was the only living sibling of Betty June Binnicker, one of the girls George Stinney was convicted of killing.) To this day, Charles Stinney and other members of his family still believe in George's innocence.