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Today in History CLARIFICATION

The Today in History from Sunday, June 16, included an item about the 1944 execution of a 14-year-old black youth, George Stinney, in South Carolina for the murders of two white girls.

Stinney's conviction was thrown out by a judge in 2014.

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