Harrowing story of innocent boy, 14, too small for electric chair, executed for murder
murdering two girls despite no evidence linking him to their deaths.It was not until 2014 - 70 years after his execution - that a judge in the state of South Carolina overturned his murder conviction.After watching police snatch her older brother for the crime he did not commit, George's sister, Amie Ruffner later told how she next saw him dead with a burned face, in an open casket.The harrowing story was written as a book by George's nephew David Stout which inspired the 1991 film, Carolina Skeletons. At the age of 14, George was the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century, The Sun reports.
