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   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. [1] [2] He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland.

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   Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Marine who had become a waterman on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was the first person to be sentenced to death and then subsequently exonerated. He was 22-years-old at the time of his wrongful conviction and served nine years in prison before he was released. In 1984, a nine-year-old girl was found dead in a wooded ...

4. www.law.umich.edu › special › exonerationKirk Bloodsworth - National Registry of Exonerations

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   Apr 28, 2022 · Kirk Bloodsworth. Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, a former Marine discus champion, was proven innocent by DNA in 1993 of the rape and murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton—a crime for which he was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1985. After Bloodsworth’s conviction was reversed in 1986, he occupied a cell directly above that ...

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6. www.law.northwestern.edu › kirk-bloodsworthFirst DNA Death Row Exoneration, Center on Wrongful ...

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   After the FBI confirmed the results, Bloodsworth was released June 28, 1993. He was the first U.S. death row prisoner to be exonerated by DNA. In December 1994, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer granted Boodsworth a full pardon based on innocence. Nine years later, in the spring of 2003, a Baltimore County forensic biologist who was ...

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   In 1985, Kirk Noble Bloodsworth was sentenced to die in a Maryland penitentiary for the brutal rape and murder of 9 year old Dawn Hamilton. A crime he did not commit. This dark journey began almost 9 months earlier on July 25th, 1984 when two young boys, who were fishing in a small pond behind the apartment complex where Dawn lived, witnessed ...

8. deathpenaltyinfo.org › resources › podcastsKirk Bloodsworth, Thirty Years After His Exoneration

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   May 21, 2024 · I’m Anne Holsinger, Managing Director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Our guest today is Kirk Bloodsworth, the first death row prisoner exonerated by DNA evidence. In the 30 years since his exoneration, he has become an advocate for criminal legal reform. He played a key role in ending the death penalty in Maryland and served as ...

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   Who is Kirk Noble Bloodsworth?

   • Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, a former Marine discus champion, was proven innocent by DNA in 1993 of the rape and murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton—a crime for which he was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1985.

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   Where is Kirk Bloodsworth now?

   • CAMBRIDGE, Maryland (CNN) -- Kirk Bloodsworth is a free man now. He is free to pursue a living as a crab and commercial fisherman in his hometown of Cambridge, on Maryland's rustic Eastern Shore. He got married last year and bought a new fishing boat two years ago. The debate over the death penalty and access to DNA testing moves into high gear.

   CNN.com - Kirk Bloodsworth, twice convicted of rape and murder

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   How did Kirk Bloodsworth win his freedom?

   • Through truly jaw-dropping twists and turns, chronicled in this film, Kirk finally won his freedom in 1993. Thanks to what was then a new technology called “genetic fingerprinting,” Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA.

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   Did Kirk Bloodsworth get 50 people out of prison?

   • Kirk Bloodsworth 4:12 Well, you know, it’s certainly it’s certainly, as you know, we’ve gotten over 50 people out of prison based on that program, and, and, you know, free from death rows and all over the country.

   Kirk Bloodsworth, Thirty Years After His Exoneration

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10. www.cnn.com › 2000 › LAWKirk Bloodsworth, twice convicted of rape and murder ... - CNN

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    Jun 20, 2000 · Kirk Bloodsworth walks out of prison a free man in 1993, nine years after being wrongly convicted of raping and killing a nine-year-old girl in Maryland