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Jul 3, 2018 · BALTIMORE —. 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. The case has lasting impact. Time has ...
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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.
Scheck was also with Bloodsworth years later, in Illinois, when the death penalty was under reconsideration there, watching the play, The Exonerated. Scheck says he got a glimpse, once again, of how difficult it can be for the ex-inmate to relive his death row experience.
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Mar 1, 2024 · 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.
Dec 14, 2018 · Kirk Bloodsworth, pictured celebrating the abolishment of the death penalty in Maryland in 2013, was the first American sentenced to death row who was exonerated by DNA. (AP/AAP) ONE IN TEN. Mr Bloodsworth, who became the executive director for Witness to Innocence this year, describes himself as one in ten.
May 26, 2004 · Posted on May 26, 2004. Maryland prosecutors used the same DNA evidence that freed Kirk Bloodsworth (pictured) from Maryland’s death row to secure a life-in-prison sentence for Kimberly Shay Ruffner, the man who has now confessed to the 1984 murder of Dawn Hamilton.
Mar 10, 2013 · The strongest advocate to end the death penalty in Maryland is Kirk Bloodsworth, who was convicted of murder in that state in 1985 and was the first person in the U.S. to be sentenced to...