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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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Charge: |
First Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
Year Convicted: |
1960 |
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Cleared:
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Location
of Trial:
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Florida |
Result:
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Executed |
Summary
of Case:
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"Innocent man executed. At trial he repudiated his confession claiming he only signed it becaue "the white officers told him to say he killed Mrs. Clayton or they'd give him to 'the mob' outside" the jail." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False confession. |
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Information Source 1: |
“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 109. |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
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