# Kirk Bloodsworth

Overturned · 1985

Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland. By the time an appeal based on the DNA evidence was underway, his sentence had been commuted to two consecutive life…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3939583
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/kirk-bloodsworth-w3939583

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