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.
(Lot Tan/AP) A 19-year-old man who killed a high school graduate a week before entering the U.S. Navy became the youngest person in Ohio to be sentenced on death row. A Warren County judge upheld a juryâs decision Thursday to give Austin Myers the death penalty for fatally stabbing Justin Back, WCPO reported.