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David Keaton. Florida Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. On the basis of mistaken identification and coerced confessions, Keaton was sentenced to death for murdering an off duty deputy sheriff during a robbery. The State Supreme Court reversed the conviction and granted Keaton a new trial because of newly discovered evidence. Charges were dropped and he was released after the actual killer was identified and convicted. State, 2. 73 So. 2d 3.
Read . UPDATE: Keaton died in 2. Poole North Carolina Conviction: 1.
Charges Dismissed: 1. After being convicted of first degree burglary and given a mandatory death sentence, Poole had his conviction overturned by the N. C. Supreme Court because the case lacked substantial evidence that Poole was the person who broke into the home. Poole, 2. 03 S. E. N. C. Wilbert Lee.
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Florida Conviction: 1. Pardoned: 1. 97. 5 (left)4.
Freddie Pitts. Florida Conviction: 1. Pardoned: 1. 97. 5 (right)Although no physical evidence linked them to the deaths of two white men, Lee and Pitts' guilty pleas, the testimony of an alleged eyewitness, and incompetent defense counsel led to their convictions. The men were sentenced to death but maintained their innocence. After their convictions, another man confessed to the crime, the eyewitness recanted her accusations, and the state Attorney General admitted that the state had unlawfully suppressed evidence.
The men were granted a new trial (Pitts v. State 2. 47 So. 2d 5. Fla. 1. 97. 1)) but were again convicted and sentenced to death. They were released in 1.
Governor Askew, who stated he was . James Creamer Georgia Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. Creamer was sentenced to death for a murder allegedly committed with six other individuals who were sentenced to life.
The convictions against all seven men were overturned, and charges were later dropped. An appellate judge in a related case stated that all seven individuals in this case were sentenced to life. The Clerk of the Cobb Superior Court has certified that Creamer alone was originally sentenced to death. Creamer was resentenced to life in prison in September 1. Christopher Spicer. North Carolina Conviction: 1.
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Acquitted: 1. 97. In 1. 97. 5, a North Carolina jury acquitted Christopher Spicer of the murder of Donnie P. Spicer was convicted of the crime in September 1. North Carolina Supreme Court. Spicer, 2. 04 SE 2d 6. At Spicer's trial, the State offered the testimony of Charles Pennington, a jailhouse snitch. Although the defense introduced two witnesses who testified that Pennington and Spicer were never cell mates, Pennington testified that Spicer admitted to the crime while he and Spicer shared a cell.
In overturning Spicer's conviction, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that the trial judge committed reversible error by not allowing defense counsel to cross examine Pennington . Defense counsel was unable to question Pennington as to who was paying the living expenses of Pennington and his wife, neither of whom was working at the time. The court also found that the trial court committed reversible error when it .
At Spicer's retrial, the jury took only 1. Thomas Gladish New Mexico Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. Richard Greer. New Mexico Conviction: 1.
Charges Dismissed: 1. Ronald Keine New Mexico Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. Clarence Smith New Mexico Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1.
The four were convicted of murder, kidnapping, sodomy, and rape and were sentenced to death. A subsequent investigation by the Detroit News uncovered lies by the prosecution's star witness, perjured identification given under police pressure, and the use of poorly administered lie detector tests.
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A state district judge dismissed the original indictments and the men were released after the murder weapon was traced to a drifter from South Carolina who admitted to the killing. Delbert Tibbs. Florida Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. Tibbs was sentenced to death for the rape of a sixteen- year- old white girl and the murder of her companion.
Tibbs, a black theological student, was convicted by an all- white jury on the testimony of the female victim whose testimony was uncorroborated and inconsistent with her first description of her assailant. The conviction was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court because the verdict was not supported by the weight of the evidence, and the state decided not to retry the case.
Tibbs' former prosecutor said that the original investigation had been tainted from the beginning and that if there was a retrial, he would appear as a witness for Tibbs. State, 3. 37 So. 2d 7. Fla. Petersburg Times. Delbert Tibbs died on Nov. Earl Charles. Georgia Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1.
Charles was convicted on two counts of murder and sentenced to death. He was released when evidence was found that substantiated his alibi.
After an investigation, the district attorney announced that he would not retry the case. Charles won a substantial settlement from city officials for misconduct in the original investigation. Read . Jonathan Treadaway Arizona Conviction: 1. Acquitted: 1. 97. Treadaway was convicted of sodomy and first degree murder of a six- year- old and sentenced to death. The conviction was overturned, and he was acquitted of all charges at retrial by the jury after 5 pathologists testified that the victim probably died of natural causes and that there was no evidence of sodomy. Members of the jury reported noted that prosecutors had failed to prove that Treadaway was even inside the victims' home.
Treadaway, 5. 68 P. Gary Beeman. Ohio Conviction: 1. Acquitted: 1. 97. Beeman was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death. He maintained that he was innocent and that Claire Liuzzo, an escaped prisoner who testified as the main prosecution witness at Beeman's first trial, was the actual killer. In 1. 97. 8 the District Court of Appeals granted Beeman a new trial, finding that Beeman's right to cross- examine Liuzzo had been unfairly restricted at his first trial. On retrial five witnesses testified that they heard Liuzzo confess to the murder and Beeman was acquitted.
Jerry Banks. Georgia Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1.
Sentenced to death for two counts of murder. Banks' conviction was overturned on the basis of newly discovered evidence which was allegedly known to the state.
State, 2. 18 S. E. Ga. Banks committed suicide after his wife divorced him. His estate won a settlement from the county for the benefit of his children. Larry Hicks. Indiana Conviction: 1. Acquitted: 1. 98.
Hicks was convicted on two counts of murder and was sentenced to death. Two weeks prior to his scheduled execution, with the help of a volunteer attorney, Hicks received a stay. The Playboy Foundation became interested in this claim of innocence and supplied funds for a reinvestigation after he passed lie detector tests. At retrial, Hicks was acquitted and released after evidence established Hicks's alibi and showed that eyewitness testimony against him at his original trial was perjured.
Read . Charles Ray Giddens. Oklahoma Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. Giddens, an 1. 8- year- old black man, was convicted for the murder of a grocery store cashier primarily on the testimony of Johnnie Gray, who claimed he accompanied Giddens to the murder scene. Although Gray was never indicted, Giddens was sentenced to death after an all white jury deliberated for only 1.
Giddens conviction and death sentence reversed by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which found Gray's testimony was unreliable and the evidence against Giddens insufficient. App., 1. 1/1. 7/8. The charges against Giddens were dropped. Michael Linder South Carolina Conviction: 1. Acquitted: 1. 98. Linder was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a highway patrol officer.
The prosecution maintained that Linder shot the officer without provocation but Linder insisted that he shot the officer in self- defense after the officer fired six shots at him. At re- trial, previously undisclosed ballistics evidence from a state crime lab confirmed Linder's self- defense theory and Linder was acquitted. Linder, 2. 78 S. E. S. C. Johnny Ross. Louisiana Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1.
Ross, a black 1. 6- year old, was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape of a white woman. Ross confessed after being beaten by the police, and his trial lasted only a few hours. Investigations by the Southern Poverty Law Center sought a new trial for Ross and presented evidence that the Ross' blood type was not the same as the type in the semen found in the victim. When presented with this evidence the New Orleans District Attorney's office released Ross. Ross, 3. 43 So. 2d 7. La. Ernest (Shujaa) Graham California Conviction: 1.
Acquitted: 1. 98. In November 1. 97.
Ernest Graham and co- defendant Eugene Allen were charged with killing a state correctional officer. Graham's first trial resulted in a mistrial when the jury could not agree on a verdict. Graham was sentenced to death in 1. The Supreme Court of California reversed the conviction because prosecutors improperly used their peremptory challenges to exclude prospective jurors who were black. Graham and Allen, who are both black, . Allen, 5. 90 P. 2d 3. Cal. 1. 97. 9) (internal citations omitted)).
Graham's third trial ended in another hung jury, and he was acquitted by the jury in his fourth trial. Anibal Jarramillo. Florida Conviction: 1. Charges Dismissed: 1. Jarramillo was sentenced to death for two counts of first degree murder, despite the jury's unanimous recommendation of life imprisonment. On appeal, his conviction was reversed when the Florida Supreme Court ruled the evidence used against him was not legally sufficient to support the conviction. State, 4. 17 So. 2d 2.
Fla. Evidence suggests that the murderer may have been the victims' roommate. Read . Lawyer Johnson. Massachusetts Conviction: 1.
Charges Dismissed: 1. Johnson, a black man, was sentenced to death by an all- white jury for the murder of a white victim.