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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
His original crime was Walking While Black
Agreed, once you get in the system it’s so hard to get out no matter how minor your crime is
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.
new title:
The child the state murdered twice..
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
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).
Hey Daven, as Simon would say, "The past was the worst." Excellent video, I think. LoL. Cheers
what a shame, I'm sure one would definitely find reasonable doubt in a case like this one if only things were done properly
Thank you.
God tried to give them a chance to fix their mistake, and they still executed the poor kid.
This is a perfect example of why the deatj penalty needs to be abolished.
Oh my gosh! 😮
Sounds like the cops murdered someone they didn’t like, then pinned it on the first black kid they could find
Pretty much.
Exactly
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.)
@@Machtyn I don’t think you properly understood my comment…
@@brysn6112 You're right. I misread it.
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.
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.
Soooo basically Police frame a black kid....nothing has changed even today.
Gotta say, the title seems to spoil the ending of that retrial...
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".
More a question of the intro wording lol@@chitlitlah
😢
Django & Life
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
Smells like teen spirit
Only in the south to a black man.
More likely in the South but it happens all over.
Also, hell yeah, the know it all was one of my favorite books as a kid.
you're still using your reading voice not your speaking voice.