A man convicted of the murders of a mother and her year-old daughter has been executed in Tennessee marking the third time the state has used the electric chair in less than a year. For his final words, Stephen West said: " In the beginning, God created man. That is all. The year-old's words appeared to reference Book of Genesis and John State officials pronounced him dead at 7.
George Junius Stinney, Jr. October 21, — June 16, , was an African American child who was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial, of murdering two white girls, ages 7 and 11, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June Stinney is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed by electric chair. A re-examination of the Stinney case began in , and several individuals and Northeastern University School of Law sought a judicial review.