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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.
Status: Exonerated by DNA. Alternative Perpetrator Identified: Yes. Type of Crime: Homicide-related, Sex Crimes. Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Marine in Maryland, was the first person to be sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated.
Apr 28, 2022 · 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.
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth was sentenced to death for a 1984 rape-murder he didn’t commit. It took nine years for DNA to exonerate him, and another decade for it to link another man to the crime.
Jul 5, 2018 · In 1993, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first person on death row to be exonerated based on DNA testing. Earlier this week, local news station WBAL in Baltimore interviewed Bloodsworth about the larger impact of his case and about his life in the 25 years since he was proven innocent of murder.
Jun 27, 2008 · After serving nearly nine years in Maryland – much of it on death row – for a crime he did not commit, Bloodsworth became the first person exonerated by DNA testing in the U.S. who had spent time on death row. Today, Bloodsworth works to ensure that others don’t suffer the same fate he did.
In 2003, Congress passed the "The Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction Federal Grant Testing Program," creating a federal DNA testing program. Today, over 30 state and regional innocence projects are at work. By August 2004, 144 prisoners, some on death row, had been exonerated by DNA testing.
