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   Oct 14, 2005 · After nine years in one of the harshest prisons in America, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence. He was pardoned by the governor of Maryland and has gone on to become a tireless spokesman against capital punishment.

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   Oct 14, 2005 · Kindle Edition. Fans of Serial and Making a Murderer, meet Kirk Bloodsworth, the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence. Charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber.

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   Who is Kirk Bloodsworth?

   • Learn more here about the IPA and read Bloodsworth’s remarks on the bill. Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Marine in Maryland, was the first person to be sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated.

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   What happened to Kirk Bloodsworth?

   • After an anonymous tip and eyewitness testimony placed him near the crime scene, Kirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death in Maryland for the 1984 sexual assault, murder, and mutilation of 9-year-old Dawn Hamilton. Bloodsworth insisted on his innocence and no physical evidence linked him to the killing. In prison he learned about DNA profiling.

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   Does Kirk Bloodsworth have a DNA test?

   • Bloodsworth's story shows the promise of DNA testing for clearing the innocent and identifying the guilty. 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.

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   Why did Bloodsworth mention a bloody rock during interrogation?

   • Post-conviction Investigation The evidence about the rock and the conversation about his wife were challenged in Bloodsworth’s appeals, stating that the bloody rock was mentioned because the police showed him a rock during the interrogation, and the incident regarding his wife amounted to his failure to buy the food she had requested.

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   He published Bloodsworth, a book about his wrongful conviction experience, in 2004. A couple of years ago, he began working as the Advocacy Director for Witness to Innocence , a Philadelphia-based coalition of death row exonerees who work to end capital punishment.

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   Oct 9, 2004 · From Publishers Weekly. Attorney and novelist Junkin (The Waterman) makes his nonfiction debut with the little-known story of Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, who in 1984 was falsely accused of the brutal sex murder of a nine-year-old girl in Maryland.

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   Oct 9, 2004 · Tim Junkin. 4.16. 976 ratings136 reviews. Charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland’s gas chamber.

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   Nov 23, 2010 · Junkin, Tim, 1951- Publication date. 2004. Topics. Bloodsworth, Kirk Noble, 1960-, Bloodsworth, Kirk Noble, 1960-, Death row inmates, DNA fingerprinting, DNA Fingerprinting, Prisoners. Publisher. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English.

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    Fans of Serial and Making a Murderer, meet Kirk Bloodsworth, the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence. Charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1984,...