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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.
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]
On January 20, 1984, the jury found Earl Washington Jr. guilty of capital murder and rape. He was later sentenced to death. Washington appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court, which affirmed the conviction and sentence on November 20, 1984.
Earl Washington Jr. arrived at the former Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond in handcuffs and leg shackles. The 25-year-old intellectually disabled farmhand from Fauquier County had his belongings, but he did not have a lawyer.
Earl Washington (pictured center) was wrongfully imprisoned for 16 years for a murder and rape he did not commit. He once came within nine days of execution.
Jan 27, 2021 · Earl Washington Jr. arrived at the former Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond in handcuffs and leg shackles. The 25-year-old intellectually disabled farmhand from Fauquier County had his...
Earl Washington, Jr. is a 33-year-old, black man with mental retardation. His IQ score of 69 ranks him in the bottom 2% of the population. He functions at about the level of a...
