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    Randall Dale Adams

    Overturned murder conviction; anti-death penalty activist

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  1. Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. His conviction was overturned in 1989. Throughout his legal ordeal, Adams maintained his innocence.

  2. Jun 25, 2011 · Randall Dale Adams, who spent 12 years in prison before his conviction in the murder of a Dallas police officer was thrown out largely on the basis of evidence uncovered by a filmmaker, died...

  3. Randall Dale Adams. Adams after his arrest in 1976. Filmmaker helped free innocent man. Sentenced to death in 1977 for the murder of a police officer in Dallas, Texas, Randall Dale Adams was exonerated as a result of information uncovered by film-maker Errol Morris and presented in an acclaimed 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line.

  4. Other Texas Murder Exonerations. Randall Dale Adams. After running out of gas on November 27, 1976, Randall Dale Adams was walking along Fort Worth Avenue in Dallas, Texas, when 16-year-old David Harris picked him up in a stolen car. The two ended up spending several hours together, smoking marijuana, drinking, and watching porn at a drive-in ...

  5. May 16, 2023 · - The New York Times. It’s OK to Drop Charges if You’ve Got the Wrong Person. ‘It’s Called Doing Your Job.’. May 16, 2023. Randall Dale Adams, walking out of a Dallas County jail in 1989...

  6. Randall Adams was sentenced to death for murdering a Dallas police officer in 1976, but he claims he was innocent and framed by the key witness, David Harris. The article explores the evidence, the investigation, and the legal battle that lasted for decades.

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  8. Jun 27, 2011 · Randall Dale Adams, who spent 12 years in prison for killing a Texas policeman before documentary filmmaker Errol Morris unearthed new evidence that suggested he’d been framed and spurred his...

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