The thymus gland is located in the neck above the heart. The function of the thymus gland is to generate mature T lymphocytes (white blood cels that help the immune system fight off illness).he function of the thymus gland is to generate mature T lymphocytes (white blood cels that help the immune system fight off illness).
An African-American boy, George Stinney Jr., who was executed at age 14 in the killing of two young white girls has been exonerated in South Carolina, 70 years after he became the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 1900s. A judge ruled he was denied due process.
Joseph Johnson from Harris County was executed. A total of 361 inmates were electrocuted in the State of Texas. When capital punishment was declared cruel and unusual punishment by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 1972, there were 45 men on death row in Texas and 7 in county jails with a death sentence.