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[188] [189] [190] West Virginia paid out a total of $6.5 million to settle lawsuits by people who had been wrongfully convicted due to Zain. [191] [192] [193] Feb 11, 1987: Tim Masters: Murder: Fort Collins, Colorado: Life in prison 9 years Yes Peggy Hettrick was murdered in 1987. Masters was a sophomore in high school at the time of the murder.
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted.Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. [1]
Viggo Kristiansen, wrongfully convicted of having together with Jan Helge Andersen raped and murdered two girls, 8 and 10 years old. May 6, 1995 Birgitte Tengs' cousin (name not published due to being under age at the time of the killing) The killing of his cousin Birgitte Tengs Kopervik: 14 years and to pay NOK 100.000 to Birgitte Tengs' parents
The two were wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. ... “There are people deserving of exonerations out there, and I hope they will ...
Of those 784 cases, 508 wrongfully convicted people were Black — two-thirds of all cases. Jack Moseley's eyewitness testimony changed the course of Miller's life.
Tinajero is one of 395 Latino people who have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated since 1989, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. For more from NBC Latino, sign up for our ...
His wrongful conviction was challenged and a new trial was ordered in June 2015. He was acquitted on November 6, 2015. [19] [20] [21] Livingston County. Mark Woodworth was convicted of the 1990 home invasion, murder and attempted murder of his parents' business partners, the Robertsons. In 2014, after two trials and two reversal, a judge ruled ...
Ryan W. Ferguson (born October 19, 1984) is an American man who spent nearly 10 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 2001 murder in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri. At the time of the murder, Ferguson was a 17-year-old high-school student.