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  2. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American, was convicted of the first-degree murder of two pre-teen white girls: Betty June Binnicker (11) and Mary Emma Thames (8). No physical evidence existed in the case, and the sole evidence against Stinney was the circumstantial fact that the girls had spoken with Stinney and his sister shortly before their ...

  3. Ricky Jackson and Ronnie and Wiley Bridgeman - Wikipedia

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    In December 2014 Ronnie Bridgeman (who had taken the name Kwame Ajamu while still in prison) was also exonerated and his conviction was overturned. [1] After his release, Jackson was awarded $1 million dollars in 2015 in compensation by the state of Ohio for his decades in prison due to the wrongful conviction. [8]

  4. Darryl Hunt - Wikipedia

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    Darryl Hunt (February 24, 1965 – March 13, 2016) was an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who, in 1984, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and the murder of Deborah Sykes, a young white newspaper copy editor. After being convicted in that case, Hunt was tried in 1987 for the 1983 ...

  5. A New York man served 22 years for two murders he didn’t ...

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    Statistics on exonerations offer further evidence of the significant challenges African Americans face in the criminal justice system. Of the 153 prisoners exonerated in the US last year, 93 ...

  6. George Stinney - Wikipedia

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    George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.

  7. Georgia deputy shoots, kills Black man who spent 16 years in ...

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    A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said. The ...

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