George Stinney was exonerated 70 years after he was wrongfully convicted for murderer when he was 14 years. He was the youngest person ever executed in North Carolina.

In 1944, Stinney was convicted for the murder of two white girls in Alcolu, South Carolina. He was then executed via the electric chair after a white lawyer for his case did not call any witnesses nor did he perform cross-examinations.

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The girls were said to be ages seven and eleven and were reportedly hunting for wildflowers in Alcolu when the incident happened. Police officials said Stinney did confess to crime.

However, there were neither witnesses nor evidences to back up the allegations against him. The trial for the teenager lasted for only three hours and the all-white jury convicted him and sentenced him to death.

On Wednesday, Judge Carmen Mullen cleared the teenager of murder as a new testimony about the case surfaced and was heard last January. Stinney's family asked for a new trial after revelations that the boy's confession was coerced.

Stinney's sister, Amie Ruffner, claims that she was with her brother during when the killing allegedly happened.

Ruffner said she saw the girls on the day they died when she and her brother were attending to their cow near the railroad tracks close to their house. The two victims asked them where they could find some maypops and the siblings said they did not know so the two girls went on to find what they were looking for, Ruffner added.

The girls were found dead the following day with head injuries and that was when police officials took Stinney and another brother. His brother was later freed while Stinney was questioned by the police without the presence of a lawyer or his parents.

"Given the particularized circumstances of Stinney's case, I find by a preponderance of the evidence standard, that a violation of the Defendant's procedural due process rights tainted his prosecution," said Mullen.

She pointed out that the death penalty sentence over the 14-year-old was a cruel and an unusual punishment.

Meanwhile, there was a protest against the testimony and Solicitor Ernest "Chip" Finney III noted that the Stinney should not be exonerated from the said crime.

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