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Earl Washington. In 1984, Earl Washington, a 22-year-old black man with an I.Q. of 69 (that of a 10-year-old child), was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder. He was sentenced to death row in Virginia, and spent over 17 years in prison — many of them on death row — before he was exonerated. He once came within nine days of execution.
Earl Washington Jr. Earl Washington Jr. (born May 3, 1960) is a former Virginia death-row inmate, who was fully exonerated of murder charges against him in 2000. He had been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1984 for the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Lyn Williams in Culpeper, Virginia. [1] Washington has an IQ estimated at 69 ...
Earl Washington, Jr. On June 4, 1982, the neighbors of 19-year-old Rebecca Williams found her naked and bleeding badly from multiple stab wounds at her apartment in Culpeper, Virginia. Two of her three young children were also in the unit.Williams was taken to the hospital where she died at 2 p.m. that day.
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As the 20th anniversary of Washington’s release approaches, the Virginia General Assembly is considering abolishing the death penalty. The case of Earl Washington, who came within nine days of execution, is front and center in the debate. But not the man himself. Now 60, Washington lives with his wife, Pam, in a modest house in a small town ...
Jan 27, 2021 · 20th anniversary of Earl Washington's freedom nears as abolition of Va. death penalty is considered. Frank Green. Jan 27, 2021. 1 of 3. Pam and Earl Washington Jr. stand outside their Southside ...
Earl Washington is exonerated based on DNA evidence and is the first person to be exonerated from Virginia's death row. His case helps pass laws that allow people to more easily get their cases back in court to prove their innocence, and was also cited in Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 decision to abolish the death penalty In Virginia.
Advocates of Earl Washington say his case shows what's wrong with the death penalty - and indeed the entire criminal justice system. On the other side are people like C.B. Jones, the retired Culpeper police chief who oversaw Washington's arrest almost 20 years ago, and who inevitably link the case for Washington's guilt to their support of the ...
