Electric Chair Central Correctional Institution

October 21 1929 june 16 1944 was an african american child who was convicted in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial of apparently murdering two white girls betty june binnicker and mary emma thames ages 7 and 11 in his hometown of alcolu south carolina he was executed by electric chair in june 1944.

Electric chair central correctional institution.

Ohio s old sparky is now a museum exhibit in the ohio state reformatory. Cci is central correctional institution columbia. The south carolina penitentiary renamed the central correctional institution in 1965 was the state of south carolina s first prison. The electric chair and control panel at the state correctional institution at rockview dec.

He bit into a wire and was electrocuted in his cell at the central correctional institution officials. The state installed the old sparky in 1912 at the central correctional institution cci in columbia. The state stopped using the electric chair in 2001 and now exclusively utilizes lethal injection in executions. Jul 9 2020 explore blake gordon s board central correctional institution on pinterest.

Currently the electric chair is located in the death chamber of the capital punishment facility. A convicted murderer who avoided the electric chair was electrocuted accidentally while. It was located adjacent to the congaree river in columbia south carolina and was added to the national register of historic. On june 16 1944 an african american teenager 14 year old george stinney became the youngest person ever executed in the electric chair when he was electrocuted at the central correctional institution in columbia south carolina.

Now closed brci is broad river correctional institution columbia. Stinney is the youngest american to be. Even when the 5 foot 1 95 pound teen shuffled into the death chamber of columbia s central correctional institution two months later and was strapped into the electric chair he had not been. George junius stinney jr.

The youngest person executed was a. The death house was the site of 243 executions. Allied pix for the patriot news thanks for visiting pennlive. See more ideas about correctional institution u s.

Completed in 1867 the south carolina penitentiary served as the primary state prison for nearly 130 years until its demolition in 1999.