The boy, George Stinney Jr., a black teen pictured above sat on an electric chair 70 years ago as he
was being convicted in 1944 of the murder of two two girls aged 11 and 8 in South Carolina.Human right groups had since then continued to agitate on the reopening of the case claiming that the boy made his confessions under pressure. Stinney admitted beating the girls with a railroad spike.
On wednessday, Judge Judge Carmen Mullins vacated the case against Stinney and declaring him innocent