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Chester County, South Carolina: Death Executed Yes The Griffins were prominent black farmers in Chester County, South Carolina, believed to be the wealthiest blacks in the area. They were convicted and executed via the electric chair in 1915 for the murder in 1913 of 74-year-old John Q. Lewis. The Griffin brothers were convicted based on the ...
Wrongful execution Thomas Griffin (January 1, 1889 – September 29, 1915) and Meeks Griffin were brothers and prominent Black farmers who lived in Chester County, South Carolina . They were executed via the electric chair in 1915 for the murder in 1913 of 75-year-old John Q. Lewis, a Confederate veteran of Blackstock , South Carolina.
Pages in category "Overturned convictions in the United States" The following 167 pages are in this category, out of 167 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Citing new DNA evidence, a Pennsylvania judge on Thursday overturned the murder convictions of three men known as the “Chester Trio” who have been imprisoned for nearly 25 years for a crime ...
For more than twenty-five years, I have reported on wrongful convictions, and I have followed the efforts of those newly-freed to return to the lives they left behind. And it's a real struggle.
In recent weeks, a series of overturned wrongful convictions – including one in Cook County, Illinois, and two in Los Angeles County, California – have been credited, in part, to the work of ...
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 ...
A wrongful conviction is never the work of a lone bad apple. Like a plane crash, a wrongful conviction is a system failure, an "organizational accident." Small errors, none of them sufficient to ...