Overturned
Earl Washington Jr.
- Year
- 1984
- Where
- Washington
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
What the record says
Earl Washington Jr. (born May 3, 1960) is a former Virginia death row inmate, who was fully exonerated of murder charges against him in 2000. He had been convicted and sentenced to death in 1984 for the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Lyn Williams in Culpeper, Virginia.
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