A father is exonerated after 21 years

A father is exonerated after 21 years | April 25, 1989 | HISTORY

James Richardson walks out of a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of killing his seven children.

James Joseph Richardson (December 26, 1935 – September 16, 2023) was an African-American man who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1968 for ...

James Joseph Richardson - National Registry of Exonerations

On Oct. 25, 1967, James Joseph Richardson and his wife, Annie Mae, left their home in Arcadia, Florida, for their jobs as fruit pickers in ...

Ron Williamson - Innocence Project

In 1988, Ron Williamson was wrongfully convicted of murder. He was sent to death row and spent 11 years in prison before being exonerated.

James Reyos - Innocence Project of Texas

On December 21, 1981, Father Patrick Ryan was found murdered in a motel room in Odessa, Texas. He had been brutally beaten to death.

Wronged father's payback at hand? STATE: Push to compensate ...

James Richardson spent 21 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of poisoning his seven children in Arcadia. Now, after years of roadblocks, Richardson' ...

How Discovery Channel's 'MythBusters' Helped a Wrongly ...

John Galvan was about 21 years into a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit when he saw something on the prison television he thought might finally help ...

Delayed justice for an innocent man - The Florida Times-Union

James Richardson, a 32-year-old fruit picker, was wrongly convicted of poisoning his seven children in 1968 in Arcadia.

This Day in History - April 25: Father exonerated after 21 years ... - TPT

This is an informational reading article about the exoneration of a father on death row. This is a perfect assignment to use as a Bell Ringer or 5 Minute ...

After 20 years in prison, a wrongfully convicted man is freed ... - CNN

Marvin Haynes has spent most of his life behind bars for a crime he never committed.

Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone ...

Since 1973, more than 8700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren't guilty—their lives upended by a system that ...

An innocent man spent 46 years in prison. And made a plan to kill ...

Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the ...

List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

Crime descriptions marked with an asterisk indicate that the events were later determined not to be criminal acts. People who were wrongfully accused are ...

Exonerated after 48 years in prison and now fighting Stage 4 cancer

Glynn Simmons is owed $175000 in compensation from Oklahoma for his wrongful conviction, the longest in U.S. history.

Executed But Possibly Innocent | Death Penalty Information Center

Some cases with strong evidence of innocence include: Carlos DeLuna (Texas, convicted 1983, executed 1989); Ruben Cantu (Texas, convicted 1985, executed 1993) ...

Exonerated man looked forward to college after prison. A deputy ...

Cure, who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction, was shot and killed Monday, Oct. 156, by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during ...

Glynn Simmons: US judge exonerates inmate after 48 years in prison

An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, the longest known wrongful sentence in the US.

James Reyos - National Registry of Exonerations

At 4 p.m. on December 21, 1981, 49-year-old Patrick Ryan, pastor of St. William Catholic church in Denver City, Texas, checked into room 126 in ...

$7.75M Settlement for Father Wrongly Jailed for Daughter's Murder

Jerry Hobbs, now of Wichita Falls, TX, was exonerated in 2010 after DNA evidence from semen in his daughter's body matched that of a convicted killer who had ...

James Joseph Richardson was wrongly convicted in 1968 for the ...

James Joseph Richardson was wrongly convicted in 1968 for the October 1967 murders of his seven children. They died after eating a poisoned ...