# James Joseph Richardson

Overturned · 1968

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 the October 1967 mass murder of his seven children. They died after eating a poisoned breakfast containing the organic phosphate pesticide parathion. At the time of the murders, Richardson was a migrant farm worker in Arcadia, Florida living with his wife Annie…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=39252878
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/james-joseph-richardson-w39252878

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