Cezar E. McKnight is an
American
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politician. He is a former member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives
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from the 101st District, serving since 2014.
He is a member of the
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In January 2022, McKnight made headlines after he introduced a bill named after
George Stinney
George Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was an African American boy, who at the age of 14 was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial, and executed, for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 †...
, a 14-year old black boy who was
wrongfully executed
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Cases of wrongful execution are cited as an argument by opponents of capital punishment, while proponents say that the argum ...
in 1944, titled the George Stinney Fund, which would make the state of South Carolina pay $10 million to the families of the wrongfully executed if their conviction is posthumously overturned.
McKnight was defeated in the 2022 June Democratic Primary by Democrat Roger K. Kirby.
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Living people
1973 births
Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
21st-century American politicians
African-American people in South Carolina politics
Morris Brown College alumni
21st-century African-American politicians
20th-century African-American people
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