The state Board of Pardons and Paroles on Friday granted parole to two young men in the Genarlow Wilson case, ending prison sentences for all but one of the "Douglasville Six" in a case that drew national attention and led to a change in sex offense laws in Georgia.

Ryan D. Barnwell and Cortez Robinson, both 22, were released from prison Friday morning after 3 1/2 years behind bars.

"It's a great day. The family is ecstatic," said Barnwell's cousin, Norman Broadnax. "It's a great Christmas present having him home."

Wilson was freed from prison Oct. 26 after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that his 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl was "cruel and unusual punishment."

The parole board looked at what the justices said about Genarlow Wilson and decided to look at the others to ensure fair treatment, parole board spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb said.

Wilson, who was 17 at the time of the incident, was convicted of felony aggravated child molestation. At the time, state law mandated a minimum 10-year sentence for the crime.

The Legislature eventually changed the law to make such cases a misdemeanor when they involved teenagers close in age.

"Those boys know what they did was wrong, but the punishment did not fit the crime," Broadnax said.

Five of Wilson's friends who attended the New Year's Eve party where the sex act occurred pleaded guilty to child molestation charges and were sentenced to five years in prison.

One of them, Adrien Willis, 22, was paroled Wednesday, Lipscomb said. Narada-Mychal Williams was paroled in April 2006.

A sixth man, Frankie J. Henry, 21, remains in prison on additional charges, Lipscomb said.