{"id":1548,"date":"2011-01-27T20:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2011-01-27T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:58:58","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-27-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 27, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Slight Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two-hundred and eight-two children (i.e., 17 years old or younger at the time of the crime) have been executed in America, including 10 females, according to Victor Streib, a professor of Law at Cleveland State University.  As recently as 1944, a 14-year-old boy was executed in South Carolina.  George Stinney, the 14-year-old black son of a sawmill worker, confessed to beating Betty Binnicker, 11, and Mary Thames, 8, to death with a railroad spike.  The little white girls were picking flowers, and the older one apparently refused his sexual advances.  Stinney&#8217;s lawyer &#8211; who was running for office &#8211; never filed an appeal.  The Associated Press reported that &#8220;the guards had difficulty strapping the boy&#8217;s slight form into the wooden chair built for adults&#8221; and he was so small &#8220;it was difficult to attach the electrode to the right leg.&#8221;  Stinney was the youngest person executed in this country during the 20th century. <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385483767\/theasylumeclecti\">An Underground Education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Slight Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Two-hundred and eight-two children (i.e., 17 years old or younger at the time of the crime) have been executed in America, including 10 females, according to Victor Streib, a professor of Law at Cleveland State University. As recently as 1944, a 14-year-old boy was executed in South Carolina. George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}