Terrifying History on Instagram: "In 1993, 16-year-old Daniel Villegas was arrested in El Paso, Texas, for the drive-by shooting deaths of two teenagers. His conviction relied primarily on a confession obtained during a prolonged interrogation by Detective Alfonso Marquez, which Villegas later recanted, alleging coercion. Despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime, a 1995 retrial (after a 1994 mistrial) resulted in a capital murder conviction and life sentence. Villegas’s legal team s

history on Instagram: "On March 23, 1944, two white girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames, were found beaten to death in Alcolu, South Carolina. Both had head injuries from a railroad spike. Within hours, police arrested 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., a Black boy who lived nearby. Officers claimed he confessed, though no written or signed statement was ever produced. He was interrogated alone without a lawyer or his parents present. Stinney was indicted

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