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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 ...
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Apr 25, 2024 · 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 ...
Jun 20, 2000 · Bloodsworth said Morin paid the $10,000 fee out of his own pocket; Bloodsworth's family had exhausted its life savings defending him and appealing his dual convictions. A year later, in April 1993 ...
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. In 1984, a nine-year-old girl was found dead in a wooded ...
Bloodsworth recounts the way the mis-identification process unfurled. The boys, looking at images of generic facial features, helped Baltimore County police create a sketch, which was released through the media. The crime had generated tremendous outrage, and more than 500 tips poured in. Bloodsworth notes he was tip No. 286.
Jun 26, 2013 · MARTIN: Kirk Bloodsworth is the first person in the U.S. who was exonerated from death row by DNA evidence. He's now the advocacy director of Witness to Innocence. That's an organization that's ...
