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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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1 |
Charge: |
Rape |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
Year Convicted: |
1945 |
Year
Cleared:
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Location
of Trial:
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Florida |
Result:
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Not Judicially Exonerated |
Summary
of Case:
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Executed after being wrongly convicted of raping a white woman he had a consensual relationship with. In a five-month period he was arrested, tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed. Mr. Anderson was black and the trial occurred in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Eyewitness identification by the alleged victim. |
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Information Source 1: |
“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 91+ |
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Information
Source 2:
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“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, p. 282. |
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Source 3:
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""The Execution of the Innocent," Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Bedau, 61 Law & Contemp. Probs. 105 (Autumn 1998)." |
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Location 3:
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http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/articles/lcp61dAutumn1998p105.htm |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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