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Michael Toney, Texas. Convicted 1999. Toney later died in a car accident on October 3, 2009, just one month and a day after his exoneration. [223] Yancy Douglas, Oklahoma. Convicted 1995. [224] Paris Powell, Oklahoma. Convicted 1997. [225] Robert Springsteen, Texas. Convicted 2001. [226]
Michael Morton (born August 12, 1954) is an American who was wrongfully convicted in 1987 in a Williamson County, Texas court of the 1986 murder of his wife Christine Morton. He spent nearly 25 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence which supported his claim of innocence and pointed to the crime being committed by another ...
Short video by Amnesty International. Anthony Charles Graves (born August 29, 1965) is the 138th exonerated death row inmate in America. [1] With no record of violence, [1] he was arrested at 26 years old, wrongfully convicted, and incarcerated for 18 years before finally being exonerated and released. [2]
A wrongfully convicted Texas man who spent 34 years in prison for a killing in the 1980s was exonerated Thursday, saying that while he couldn’t get those years back, he was happy and moving forward.
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row for over a decade after being convicted of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. Lucio's lawyers have ...
Lawyers for the sole Latina on Texas' death row filed a clemency petition Tuesday ahead of her planned execution next month, presenting evidence they say indicates she was wrongfully convicted and ...
Dallas, Texas: Death 12 years Yes Adams was convicted of killing Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. In 1988, the film The Thin Blue Line, which was based on the case, was released. Public outcry over the film prompted officials to re-examine the case. Adams was released in 1989. [97] 1977: Dewey Bozella: Murder Poughkeepsie, New York: 20 ...
On Monday, a Texas court set an October execution date for a man named Robert Roberson, despite overwhelming evidence that he was wrongly convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2003 ...