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6 days ago · Mr. Bloodsworth reflects on the thirty years since his exoneration and discusses the experience of being wrongfully convicted. He also describes the work he and other exonerees have done, and how the issue of innocence has affected legislation on the death penalty.
Former death row inmate Kirk Bloodsworth waged and won a nearly 30-year battle to end capital punishment in Maryland. By Ron Cassie. Photography by Ryan Lavine | November 2013
Jul 3, 2018 · Kirk Bloodworth walked out of prison a free man 25 years ago Thursday, making history as the first death-row inmate to be exonerated by DNA.
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Jul 25, 2023 · In the July 2023 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Anne Holsinger, Managing Director of DPIC, speaks with Kirk Bloodsworth (pictured), the first person exonerated from death row by DNA evidence. Mr. Bloodsworth reflects on the thirty years since his exoneration and discusses the experience of being wrongfully convicted.
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.
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.
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Jun 27, 2008 · Tomorrow marks the fifteenth anniversary of Kirk Bloodsworth’s exoneration in Maryland. 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.
