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packy
03-28-2008, 08:26 PM
http://165.124.73.46/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/mdBloodsworthSummary.html

Kirk 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. He was exonerated by DNA in 1993 of the rape and murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton — a crime for which he was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1985