₦airaland Forum

Really a sad thing to lose one's job in this hard times

Nah your way By Nosa ft Mario ese

Man City don't know how to preach love at all

Chelsea are you noma?

Rip sire

I have been to 10 states in Nigeria and would love to do the 36 states soonest

please,this is not the time to be divided we must rally round this two(Atiku/obi )and try as much as possible to convince other nigerians to vote PDP in 2019

#AtikuObi2019

Atiku has done the right thing,Atiku/Obi all the way

that's massive mehn

Lol,buh on a serious note people take their safety for granted in nigeria.

one of the best thread wey i don come across in this forum in recent times,so educative.

Amanda333:
I know am not perfect but people say we are good yet i lost my baby after one painful miscarriage

I don't know if anyone has passed 2ru my predicament. i was having issues during my gestation period, i cried to God to keep me and my baby, prayed like neva b4, declared and believed that God should save us, i even called pastor, Rev father and some people to help me in prayers, finally i lost the baby
I thank God for keeping me but honestly my hrt is broken beyond repairs. I so much believe in God, i know no power is stronger than His (in case the death of that child is as a result of evil manipulations) i know He is able to save the life of the child but He allowed that to happen


Now, my question is Do God pay good with bad/evil because am so confused and bittered, not dat am trying to count our good deeds, i know its nofin but am just confused. Hubby can borrow money to help someone who is in need, he can use his last money to work in God's vineyard. 4 my own side, every Sunday i don't rest, people will be in my house immediately after Sunday service till 12 midnight, i will serve them both lunch and dinner, i don't do that because am not tired of preparing meals but i do them because of God (most of them their wives are in nija and getting food here on Sundays is somehow difficult) I welcome everybody with Golden heart, visit motherless home sometimes etc but the death of this baby is trying to make me feel that being good is somehow useless but one thing i know is that i will neva give up on God even at this painful situation


Pls someone should tell God to Console me, people coming here to tell me sorry makes me more sad, the other man was praying for us, he said "God why this family? they can sacrifice alot to make someone else happy" that statement alone made me cry so much but i don't want to question God.

Pls I need bible messages to hold on my faith
Thanks

sorry for your loss dear, but i want to let you know that God's not dead,he's surely alive,all the tribulations we may be passing through in our lives as Christians or children of God is for a while,God has his purpose for each and every one of us, all we have to do is to continue believing in him and never relent in staying strong in faith.The ultimate goal in our life is to live a life of holiness even in the face of trial and persecution.God bless us all and give us the grace to make heaven at last, amen

following bro

bamasite:
There must be implication: an agreement to settle and satisfy their individual ambitions. THE INTEREST OF THE MASSES WON'T BE MENTIONED EVEN ONCE.

my brother,you are wise.

who did we offend in africa? oyinbo has a different way of doing things totally different from ours over here.
Just take a look at how innovative and productive this people can be,same cannot be said of Nigeria/Africa. Ours is only wickedness and hatred towards each other we sabi.


Op continue cos me don dey follow this thread

raker300:
Awka, new areas

raker nwa mama, Jisie ike nna.

ckenneths:
The Nike lake resort hotel in Enugu........

oga spyder ODOGWU ka ibu,keep up the good work brother

gidjah:
hmmmm that's my favourite movie so far. But "miracles from heaven ".. Baeg give me download links

someone sent it for me bro i didn't download it

God's Not Dead2 And Miracles From Heaven

spyder880:
Where is this o ?

Oga spyder, Dis nah agulu lake hotel,i know igboland like the back of my palm

BeijinDossier:
Paul, just for you to know that i know you down to your family members.

Lol

BeijinDossier:
Paul, though you are from Nsukka but you knew this because your parents and all your siblings grew up at Nnewi. I used to be a classmate to your brother Christian at Okongwu Gramma School Nnewi. I know every member of Ogenyi family, Chima and rest of them.

ok

ckenneths:
Nnewi, Anambra state......

ok

ckenneths:
Which place is this

nice picture

This looks bad, hope it doesn't affect his spine.

ckenneths:
Another new flyover construction in progress, and as usual, the quality is top notch........

great work there

George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was an American wrongfully convicted of murder in 1944 in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina . An African-American , he is one of the youngest persons in the United States in the 20th-century to be sentenced to death and to be executed, being 14 years old at the time of his execution. [1]
Stinney was convicted in less than 10 minutes, during a one-day trial, by an all-white jury[2] of the first-degree murder of two white girls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames. After being arrested, Stinney was said to have confessed to the crime. [3][4] There was no written record of his confession apart from notes provided by an investigating deputy, [5] and no transcript was recorded of the brief trial. He was denied appeal and executed by electric chair .
Since Stinney's conviction and execution, the question of his guilt, the validity of his reported confession, and the judicial process leading to his execution have been extensively criticized. [6]
A group of lawyers and activists investigated the Stinney case on behalf of his family. In 2013 the family petitioned for a new trial. On December 17, 2014, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70 years after his execution, because the circuit court judge ruled that he had not been given a fair trial; he had no effective defense and his Sixth Amendment rights had been violated.[7][8] The judgment noted that while Stinney may in fact have committed the crime, the prosecution and trial were fundamentally flawed. [5] Judge Mullen ruled that his confession was likely coerced and thus inadmissible. She also found that the execution of a 14-year-old constituted " cruel and unusual punishment ." [9]
CASE BACKGROUND
In 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. lived in
Alcolu, Clarendon County, South Carolina . The 14-year-old African-American boy lived with his father, George Stinney Sr., mother Aime, brothers John, age 17, and Charles, age 12, and sisters Katherine, age 10, and Aime, age 7. George Sr. worked at the town's sawmill, and the family lived in housing provided by George Sr.'s employer. Alcolu was a small, working-class mill town, where white and black neighborhoods were separated by railroad tracks. The town was typical of small Southern towns of the time, with separate schools and churches for white and black residents, who rarely interacted. [5]
The bodies of Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7, were found in a ditch on the African-American neighborhood side of Alcolu on March 23, 1944. They had been beaten with an improvised weapon, variously reported as a piece of blunt metal or a railroad spike. [2] The girls were last seen riding their bicycles looking for flowers. As they passed the Stinney property, they asked young George Stinney and his sister, Aime,[5] if they knew where to find "maypops ", a local name for passionflowers. [4] According to Aime, she was with George at the time of the murders. [5]
When the girls did not return home, search parties were organized; George's father was among the searchers. [6] The bodies of the girls were found the next morning, on the part of town where the African-Americans resided, in a ditch filled with muddy water. According to an article reported by the wire services on March 24, 1944, and published widely, with the mistake of the boy's name preserved, the sheriff announced the arrest and said that "George Junius" had confessed and led officers to "a hidden piece of iron." [3][4] Both girls had suffered blunt force trauma to the face and head. [10] Reports differed as to what kind of weapon had been used. [11] According to a report by the medical examiner, these wounds had been "inflicted by a blunt instrument with a round head, about the size of a hammer." Both girls' skulls were punctured. The girls had not been sexually assaulted and their hymens were intact. The medical examiner reported the Instruments of the older girl were slightly bruised. [12][13]
INVESTIGATION
George Stinney was arrested on suspicion of murdering the girls along with his older brother Johnny. Johnny was released, George was held and not allowed to see his parents until after his trial and conviction. [5] According to a handwritten statement, the arresting officer was H.S. Newman, a Clarendon County deputy, who stated "I arrested a boy by the name of George Stinney. He then made a confession and told me where to find a piece of iron about 15 inches were [sic] he said he put it in a ditch about six feet from the bicycle." No confession statement signed by Stinney is known to exist. [5][12]
George was reported to have gotten into fights at school, including a fight where he scratched a girl with a knife. This assertion by Stinney's seventh-grade teacher, who was African-American, was disputed by Aime Stinney Ruffner when it was reported in 1995. A local white woman who remembered Stinney from childhood said Stinney had threatened to kill her and her friend the day before the murder, and that he was known as a bully. [5][14]
Following George's arrest, his father was fired from his job at the local sawmill, and the Stinney family had to immediately vacate the housing provided by Stinney Sr's employer. The family feared for their safety. His parents did not see George again before the trial. He had no support during his 81-day confinement and trial; he was kept at a jail in Columbia 50 miles from town because of the risk of lynching. [6] Stinney was questioned alone, without his parents or an attorney. [2] Although the Sixth Amendment guarantees legal counsel, it was not until 1966 that Miranda v. Arizona explicitly required representation through the course of criminal proceedings. [2]
TRIAL
The entire proceeding against Stinney, including jury selection, took one day. Stinney's court-appointed defense counsel was Charles Plowden, a tax commissioner campaigning for election to local political office. Plowden did not challenge the three police officers who testified that Stinney confessed to the two murders, despite this being the only evidence against him, and despite the prosecution's presentation of two different versions of Stinney's verbal confession. In one version Stinney was attacked by the girls after he tried to help one girl who had fallen in the ditch and he killed them in self defense. In the other version he had followed the girls, first attacking Mary Emma and then Betty June. There was no physical evidence linking him to the murders.[5] There is no written record of Stinney's confession apart from Deputy Newman's statement. [6]
Stinney's trial had an all-white jury. More than 1,000 people crowded the courtroom but no blacks were allowed. [6] Other than the testimony of the three police officers, at trial prosecutors called three witnesses: Reverend Francis Batson, who discovered the bodies of the two girls, and the two doctors who performed the post-mortem examination. Conflicting confessions were reported to have been offered by the prosecution. The court allowed discussion of the "possibility" of rape despite an absence of evidence in the medical examiner's report. Stinney's counsel did not call any witnesses, did not cross-examine witnesses and offered little or no defense. Trial presentation lasted two and a half hours. [5] The jury took ten minutes to deliberate, after which they returned with a guilty verdict. The judge sentenced Stinney to death by the electric chair. There is no transcript of the trial. No appeal was filed. [6]
Stinney's family, churches and the NAACP appealed to Governor Olin D. Johnston for clemency, given the age of the boy. Others urged the governor to let the execution proceed, which he did. [10] Johnston stated in a response to one appeal for clemency that "It may be interesting for you to know that Stinney killed the smaller girl to rape the larger one. Then he killed the larger girl and raped her dead body. Twenty minutes later he returned and attempted to rape her again, but her body was too cold. All of this he admitted himself." These assertions were not supported by the medical examiner's report. [5]
Between the time of Stinney's arrest and his execution, Stinney's parents were allowed to see him once, after the trial in the Columbia penitentiary. [5]

EXECUTION
The execution of George Stinney was carried out at the Central Correctional Institution in
Columbia on June 16, 1944, at 7:30 p.m. [10] Standing 5 feet 1 inch (155 cm) tall and weighing just over 90 pounds (40 kg), [15] Stinney was so small compared to the usual adult prisoners that law officers had difficulty securing him to the frame holding the electrodes. The state's adult-sized face-mask did not fit him; as he was hit with the first 2,400- volt surge of electricity, the mask covering his face slipped off. [16] Stinney was declared dead within four minutes of the initial electrocution. From the time of the murders until Stinney's execution, 83 days had passed. [10]
Reopening of case and vacatur of conviction
In 2004, George Frierson, a local historian who grew up in Alcolu, started researching the case after reading a newspaper article about it. His work gained the attention of South Carolina lawyers Steve McKenzie and Matt Burgess. [5] In addition, Ray Brown, attorney James Moon, and others contributed countless hours of research and review of historical documents, in finding witnesses and evidence to assist in exonerating Stinney. Among those who aided the case were the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law , who filed an amicus brief with the court in 2014. [9] Frierson and the pro bono lawyers first sought relief through the Pardon and Parole Board of South Carolina.
McKenzie and Burgess, along with lawyer Ray Chandler representing Stinney's family, filed a motion for a new trial on October 25, 2013. [17]
George Frierson stated in interviews, "there has been a person that has been named as being the culprit, who is now deceased. And it was said by the family that there was a deathbed confession." Frierson said that the rumored culprit came from a well-known, prominent white family. A member, or members, of that family had served on the initial coroner's inquest jury, which had recommended that Stinney be prosecuted. [18]
In its amicus brief, the CRRJ said:
New evidence in the court hearing in January 2014 included testimony by Stinney's siblings that he was with them at the time of the murders. In addition, an affidavit was introduced from the "Reverend Francis Batson, who found the girls and pulled them from the water-filled ditch. In his statement he recalls there was not much blood in or around the ditch, suggesting that they may have been killed elsewhere and moved." [5] Wilford "Johnny" Hunter, who was in prison with Stinney, "testified that the teenager told him he had been made to confess" and always maintained his innocence. [5]
Family members of both Betty Binnicker and Mary Thames expressed disappointment at the ruling. They said that, although they acknowledge his execution at the age of 14 is controversial, they never doubted his guilt. The niece of Betty Binnicker has said she and her family have extensively researched the case, and argues that "people who [just] read these articles in the newspaper don't know the truth." [11] Binnicker's niece said that, in the early 1990s, a police officer who had arrested Stinney had contacted her and said: "Don't you ever believe that boy didn't kill your aunt." [11] These family members said that the claims of a deathbed confession from an individual confessing to the girls' murders have never been substantiated. [11]
The solicitor for the state of South Carolina, who argued for the state against exoneration , was Ernest A. Finney III. He is the son of Ernest A. Finney Jr., who was appointed as South Carolina's first African-American State Supreme Court justice since Reconstruction. [19]
Rather than approving a new trial, on December 17, 2014, circuit court Judge Carmen Mullen
vacated Stinney's conviction. She ruled that he had not received a fair trial, as he was not effectively defended and his Sixth Amendment right had been violated.[8][7] The ruling was a rare use of the legal remedy of coram nobis. Judge Mullen ruled that his confession was likely coerced and thus inadmissible . She also found that the execution of a 14-year-old constituted "cruel and unusual punishment", and that his attorney "failed to call exculpating witnesses or to preserve his right of appeal." [9] Mullen confined her judgment to the process of the prosecution, noting that Stinney "may well have committed this crime." With reference to the legal process Mullen wrote "No one can justify a 14-year-old child charged, tried, convicted and executed in some 80 days," concluding that "In essence, not much was done for this child when his life lay in the balance." [5]

source:-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney

spyder880:
Where is this point on this road, does anyone know?

I don't really know

Government should find a way to immortalize him,he died in active service for his country.
REST ON SAM

spyder880:
This road has some solar system lighting, where is this?

Oga spyder Judging from the colour of those keke napep I'm sure it's Delta state.

spyder880:
Chineke!

You guys are great, I thought I will surprise you people

lol