Cezar E. McKnight is an

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politician. He is a former member of the

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from the 101st District, serving since 2014. He is a member of the Democratic party. In January 2022, McKnight made headlines after he introduced a bill named after

George Stinney George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an right to a fair trial, unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – ...

, a 14-year old black boy who was wrongfully executed in 1944, titled the George Stinney Fund, which would make the state of South Carolina pay $10 million to the families of the wrongfully executed if their conviction is posthumously overturned. McKnight was defeated in the 2022 June Democratic Primary by Democrat Roger K. Kirby.

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