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    American wrongfully convicted of murder

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  1. The evidence about the rock and the conversation about his wife were challenged in Bloodsworths 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.

  2. 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. By the time an appeal based on the DNA ...

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  4. 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 ...

  5. Jun 20, 2000 · Kirk Bloodsworth, twice convicted of rape and murder, exonerated by DNA evidence After spending two years on death row, Kirk Bloodsworth was cleared by DNA evidence that was nearly destroyed

  6. Jun 26, 2013 · June 26, 201312:00 PM ET. Heard on Tell Me More. 13-Minute Listen. Playlist. Kirk Bloodsworth left death row 20 years ago. He was the first death row inmate in the U.S. proven innocent using...

  7. May 7, 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 ...

  8. Jun 28, 2012 · 06.28.12. Today marks the 19th anniversary of. Kirk Bloodsworth. ’s exoneration. Bloodsworth was the first person to be exonerated through DNA testing who had received a death sentence. He spent eight years in prison, much of it on death row.

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