Electric Chair Central Correctional Institution

Convicts were hanged in the counties where they committed their crimes until 1912 when the state installed an electric chair called old sparky.

Electric chair central correctional institution.

The south carolina penitentiary renamed the central correctional institution in 1965 was the state of south carolina s first prison. George junius stinney jr. See more ideas about correctional institution u s. October 21 1929 june 16 1944 was an african american child who was convicted in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial of apparently murdering two white girls betty june binnicker and mary emma thames ages 7 and 11 in his hometown of alcolu south carolina he was executed by electric chair in june 1944.

Stinney is the youngest american to be. The youngest person executed was a. The electric chair and control panel at the state correctional institution at rockview dec. The state installed the old sparky in 1912 at the central correctional institution cci in columbia.

Currently the electric chair is located in the death chamber of the capital punishment facility. Even when the 5 foot 1 95 pound teen shuffled into the death chamber of columbia s central correctional institution two months later and was strapped into the electric chair he had not been. Allied pix for the patriot news thanks for visiting pennlive. Ohio s old sparky is now a museum exhibit in the ohio state reformatory.

The death house was the site of 243 executions. It was located adjacent to the congaree river in columbia south carolina and was added to the national register of historic. The state stopped using the electric chair in 2001 and now exclusively utilizes lethal injection in executions. On june 16 1944 an african american teenager 14 year old george stinney became the youngest person ever executed in the electric chair when he was electrocuted at the central correctional institution in columbia south carolina.

He bit into a wire and was electrocuted in his cell at the central correctional institution officials. Jul 9 2020 explore blake gordon s board central correctional institution on pinterest. The electric chair the use of an electric chair in south carolina began in august 1912. Now closed brci is broad river correctional institution columbia.

Completed in 1867 the south carolina penitentiary served as the primary state prison for nearly 130 years until its demolition in 1999.