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Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] On June 19, 2024, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals determined that he was actually innocent, citing a litany of prosecutorial misconduct and errors. [2]
Idaho has done next to nothing to prevent repeating Christopher Tapp’s shocking wrongful conviction. How many other innocents are behind bars? | Opinion Chris Tapp only had 47 years.
He lobbied Idaho’s governor to sign a bill providing compensation to the wrongfully convicted, and in 2021 that bill became law, providing $62,000 for each year a person was incarcerated and ...
Someone who did come close to execution in Idaho was Charles Fain, who was wrongfully convicted and spent nearly 20 years on death row for the 1982 sexual assault and murder of 9-year-old Daralyn ...
In October 2020, Tapp sued the city of Idaho Falls for wrongful conviction. [9] In June 2022, a settlement was reached for $11.4 million. [10] Tapp died after an altercation in a Las Vegas hotel room in October 2023. [11] [12] The Clark County Coroner’s Office ruled his death a homicide. [11]
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]
Tapp was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls in 1998. DNA evidence later proved his innocence.
In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards for failing to properly observe inmates. Jail or Agency: Bell County Jails; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/23/2016; Age at death: 45; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.tdtnews ...