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Lunchtime conversation included borderline inappropriate topics, like past tales of drunken revelry or TMI details of Stan’s recent divorce. This is exactly the kind of thing they’d pull. Besides, if “the Bloodworth incident” really happened… they wouldn’t mention it so often.
After an anonymous tip and eyewitness testimony placed him near the crime scene, Kirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death in Maryland for the 1984 sexual assault, murder, and mutilation of 9-year-old Dawn Hamilton. Bloodsworth insisted on his innocence and no physical evidence linked him to the killing. In prison he learned about DNA profiling.
Nov 13, 2009 · Disregarding his alibi, the jury convicted Bloodsworth and sent him to death row. For the next seven years, Bloodsworth maintained his innocence while in prison. In the meantime, forensic DNA ...
BLOODSWORTH - An Innocent Man is a documentary memoir recounting Kirk Noble Bloodsworth's remarkable journey through the criminal justice system. An innocent man convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, Kirk became the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States. Set against the backdrop of his 2013 battle repeal the death penalty in the State ...
6 days ago · 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 ...
February 15, 2007 cdaniel. Kirk Noble Bloodsworth was sentenced to death for a 1984 rape-murder he didn’t commit. It took nine years for DNA to exonerate him, and another decade for it to link another man to the crime. Mr. Bloodsworth is one of a small but disturbing number of innocent people who were released from death row after being ...
Oct 29, 2014 · Bloodsworth urged his attorney to press for one more search, and it eventually was found in a paper bag in the trial judge's closet. Bloodsworth's attorney, who now is a judge, called him excitedly when the DNA results were back. "Kirk, you're innocent, man, you're innocent," he said. "I know that," Bloodsworth responded.
