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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 ...
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. “It feels like yesterday to me,” Bloodsworth said ...
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 ...
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.
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. [1] [2] He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland. By the time an appeal based on the DNA ...
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 ...
Jun 20, 2000 · A little girl, a big crime, the death penalty. The jury convicted Bloodsworth of first-degree murder and rape in March 1985. A Baltimore County Circuit judge sentenced him to death later that ...
