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Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed race Hispanic man,[Note 1] was the neighborhood watch coordinator for his gated community where Martin was visiting his relatives at the time of the shooting.[3][4][5] Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an altercation between the two.
A teenage boy convicted of murdering two young girls has been exonerated - 70 years after he was executed for the crime. George Stinney Jr was just 14 when he was sentenced to death over the killing of two white girls, aged 11 and seven. He became the youngest person in the 20th Century to be executed in the US. But 70 years on a US judge in South Carolina has thrown out the black teenâs conviction on the basis he was wronged by the justice system. The ruling has been welcomed by Stinney Jrâs family and civil rights activists who campaigned for years.