Claim: American farmer Thomas Griffin was known for his wrongful execution at the age of 26 for murder and pardoned in October 2009 after retired politician Tom Joyner appealed to the court.
Evidence: Wrongful execution September 29, 1915(1915-09-29) (aged 26)
South Carolina They were executed via the electric chair in 1915 for the murder in 1913 of 75-year-old John Q. Lewis, a Confederate veteran of Blackstock, SC. Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin were pardoned in October 2009 after Tom Joyner sought the pardons of his great-uncles from state appeals court in Columbia, South Carolina.