 This is George Stinney at age 14 in a small town in South Carolina He was convicted of capital murder based on a very doubtful confession represented by a lawyer who did a dubious job Representing him he was sentenced to death and at age 14 He is the youngest person to be executed in the 20th century This image comes from the collection of of what espi who was an historian Who resided in alabama and devoted decades of his life going throughout the country? Investigating and collecting records of executions that have occurred since colonial times through the late 1980s early 1990s in this country by the 1980s what espi had discovered nearly 15,000 people executed and part of his process is he would gather primary and secondary source material on these People he was researching and then he would write up an index card detailing all of the elements of the crime the trial all sorts of racial and gender aspects of both the accused and the victims and Overed many decades he compiled over a hundred and fifty thousand pages So one of the reasons it's really important and significant to continue to develop the National Death Poundary Archive is so we ensure and Make available Resources to scholars who are interested in writing about the history of the death Poundary in the late 20th century And it's not just historians now now these records as the Stinney Photographs suggests involve real people Sometimes we forget that the statistics 15,000 16,000 people executed in this country These are people whose lives have been affected. They're important. We want the public. We want litigators We want historians. We want researchers to have these records at their disposal and they are they're going to be preserved And available at the University at Albany