It's no secret that this kind of thing happened frequently. What makes this rare is that it came to light before portable video camera technology was common. I believe it was a similar situation for George Stinney Jr. who is the youngest person in the US to ever be sentenced to death. A few decades later he was posthumously pardoned.
@DallasGunther
9 ай бұрын
This kind of stuff pisses me off. I've been in trouble and it's no fun being stuck in the system. I was guilty and deserved what I got but I don't think this young man was anything but in the wrong place at the wrong time.
@HereBeDragonsYT
9 ай бұрын
His original crime was Walking While Black
@cbdy1358
9 ай бұрын
Agreed, once you get in the system it’s so hard to get out no matter how minor your crime is
@Blinkerd00d
7 ай бұрын
They wonder why people become repeat offenders. When you can get a good job and crime is all you know... I hope things have worked out for you, bro. I have friends stuck in a horrible cycle.
@Theoreticallyyou1234
24 күн бұрын
I can understand. Bad social situation, no money, no support, no opportunity and a record that prevents you from getting actual work. I feel sorry for you, still, crime is not the answer
@DallasGunther
24 күн бұрын
@@Theoreticallyyou1234 I'm not a very good criminal, that's why I go to work everyday. I just like illicit drugs.
@Magmafrost13
9 ай бұрын
The US legal system was and frankly still is a sick mockery of the word "justice". Its beyond me how anyone could feel anything more positive than utter disdain for the entire system
@sujimtangerines
9 ай бұрын
I would rather 10 guilty people be found not guilty than 1 single innocent person be found guilty, especially when there are still corrupt police officers & over-zealous prosecutors trying to railroad those who have to rely on over-worked public defenders. No one should be convicted on confession alone, nor if there's simply supposed eye-witnesses (esp cross-racial identification). Circumstantial evidence must be prodigious in number or nature, but I'd rather it be DNA linked - not trace/touch/transfer or otherwise suspicious (like where preservatives are also found).
@Hillbilly001
9 ай бұрын
Hey Daven, as Simon would say, "The past was the worst." Excellent video, I think. LoL. Cheers
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff
9 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@Legeden
9 ай бұрын
what a shame, I'm sure one would definitely find reasonable doubt in a case like this one if only things were done properly
@nobodyfamousX
9 ай бұрын
God tried to give them a chance to fix their mistake, and they still executed the poor kid.
@LunaticTheCat
28 күн бұрын
This is a perfect example of why the deatj penalty needs to be abolished.
@ZomBeeNature
3 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh! 😮
@brysn6112
9 ай бұрын
Sounds like the cops murdered someone they didn’t like, then pinned it on the first black kid they could find
@BigMobe
9 ай бұрын
Pretty much.
@kashaleon2768
2 ай бұрын
Exactly
@Machtyn
Ай бұрын
It's not that they didn't like him, he just had the wrong skin color. It's just how America was at the time. (And it was definitely wrong.)
@brysn6112
Ай бұрын
@@Machtyn I don’t think you properly understood my comment…
@Machtyn
Ай бұрын
@@brysn6112 You're right. I misread it.
@kashaleon2768
2 ай бұрын
Django & Life
@jacara1981
9 ай бұрын
Soooo basically Police frame a black kid....nothing has changed even today.
@LoboPal
9 ай бұрын
Gotta say, the title seems to spoil the ending of that retrial...
@chitlitlah
9 ай бұрын
Part of me was hoping they'd prevent him from facing a second execution, while the other part of me remembered what the title said. Still, I might not have watched the video if the title had been, "The Teen Who Was Executed... and then Other Stuff Happened".
@LoboPal
9 ай бұрын
More a question of the intro wording lol@@chitlitlah
@otmgi3865
9 ай бұрын
My theory... because it totally matters: If the backroom incident happened, in the late 40s, between a Black and White man, between a business owner and... to try and say it nicely, a black man in Louisiana in the late 40s. I could imagine as the pharmacist, having a secret like that come out. "A secret between him an I". What if he asked him to kill him as a form of suicide? He couldn't do it himself, so ask his (hopefully) trusted (and not Coerced) friend/secret partner to do him a favor by killing him so he isn't shamed with what would be at the time, very publicly shamed actions. All the details of this story are so sad.
@bradlevantis913
9 ай бұрын
A defense lawyer spoke to our law class and said jurors hear these awful details about a crime and then are asked to deliver justice for the victim. If the crime is bad enough is doesn’t matter who gets convicted as long as someone does.
@Jay.B.2046
9 ай бұрын
😢
@ignitionfrn2223
9 ай бұрын
So he has been through the chair & then survived...make you wonder if his last thought "great, at least the gun is less painful" 19:20 - Bonus fact
@ktwei
9 ай бұрын
Smells like teen spirit
@reddog-ex4dx
9 ай бұрын
Only in the south to a black man.
@BigMobe
9 ай бұрын
More likely in the South but it happens all over.
@LoboPal
9 ай бұрын
Also, hell yeah, the know it all was one of my favorite books as a kid.
@Tad.Dugdale
9 ай бұрын
you're still using your reading voice not your speaking voice.
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