The cost of fabric, thread and batting to make a quilt for a double or queen-sized bed starts around $85-$145 but commonly runs $200-$350 or more. Crafting a quilt takes a lot of time, and most experienced quilters prefer to work only with high-quality fabrics.
Get daily news by email. 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.
'We Call It Life Row': Two of the Youngest US Women on Death Row Describe Life Behind Bars. When Tiffany Cole and Emilia Carr walk down the hall in Floridaâs Lowell Correctional Institution for Women together, they seem more like smiling girlfriends than convicted felons sitting on death row. Cole is now 33, and Carr is now 30. Carr is the youngest woman in the United States sitting on death row, and Cole is the third youngest. The two women are behind bars for committing two separate crimes, and they had separate lives until they arrived as neighbors on the famous death row corridor at the womenâs correctional facility in Ocala, Florida.