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  2. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The prosecution appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the state's highest court rejected the appeal. The prosecution dismissed the charges on October 11, 2018. Jones' nearly 45 years in prison was the second longest time spent incarcerated after a known wrongful conviction in U.S. history at the time. [79] June 3, 1973: Chol Soo Lee: Murder

  3. Overturned convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Graves was awarded $1.4 million by the State of Texas in June 2011 for his wrongful conviction. [49] Dallas County. Randall Dale Adams was sentenced to death for of the 1976 murder of a police officer. He was exonerated in 1989. Cornelius Dupree was convicted of aggravated robbery, which was alleged to have been committed during a rape in 1979 ...

  4. Anthony Charles Graves - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. The jail was issued a noncompliance notice from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to identification. Jail or Agency: Hunt County Criminal Justice Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 3/1/2016; Date of death: 6/13/2016; Age at death: 36; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.heraldbanner.com

  6. Texas man is exonerated after spending nearly 34 years in ...

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    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.

  7. National Registry of Exonerations - Wikipedia

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    The Registry was co-founded in 2012 with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law to provide detailed information about known exonerations in the United States since 1989. As of February 6, 2020, the Registry has 2,551 known exonerations in the United States since 1989. [1]

  8. Capital punishment in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The last hanging in the state was that of Nathan Lee, a man convicted of murder and executed in Angleton, Brazoria County, Texas on August 31, 1923. [5] The only other method used at the time was execution by firing squad, which was used for three Confederate deserters during the American Civil War , as well as a man convicted of attempted rape ...

  9. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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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]