A 14-year-old black boy, George Stinney, in rural South Carolina reportedly became the youngest person executed in this century when he was electrocuted 70 years ago for the murders of two white girls.

Judge Carmen Mullins vacated the boy’s conviction and cleared Stinney’s name on Tuesday for the beating deaths of 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames and 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker in Alcolu, South Carolina, according to the NY Daily News.

The news that George Stinney’s name had been legally cleared comes a couple weeks after grand jury decisions in the Ferguson shooting and Eric Garner cases were announced.

Mullins reportedly found “fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process” in the case of the 14-year-old boy. She reportedly noted the lack of a credible defense during trial, and stated that the wrongfully convicted boy’s confessions, of which there were two versions, appeared to have been coerced.

There were reportedly no witnesses and no physical evidence in the case.

“I can think of no greater injustice,” Mullins wrote in her ruling, according to ABC News.

The two girls had reportedly been beaten badly in the head and was seen picking flowers before their death. Witnesses reportedly stated they saw Stinney with the girls.

Stinney was reportedly a small, frail boy and his executioners noted that the electric chair straps didn’t even fit him and the electrode was too big for his leg.

The trial for young Stinney reportedly only lasted three hours and it only took 10 minutes for an all-white, all-male jury to wrongfully convict the boy.

The wrongful conviction of George Stinney had a lasting effect on his family.

“They took my brother away and I never saw my mother laugh again,” stated Amie Ruffner.

She added, “I would love his name to be cleared.”