Conviction review
Convictions that were overturned, and innocence claims courts are ruling on this week. Read what the evidence was and where it broke.
Kirk Bloodsworth
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…
1999 · MarylandExonerated 1999Anthony Gray
In 1991, Anthony Gray was wrongly convicted of a murder and rape he did not commit in Maryland. He was later exonerated in 1999.
1993 · MarylandExonerated 1993Kirk Bloodsworth
Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Marine in Maryland, was the first person to be sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated.
2002 · MarylandExonerated 2002Bernard Webster
In November 2002, Bernard Webster was exonerated and released from prison in Maryland after being incarcerated for 20 years.