Harry Dale Bundy

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	1957
Year Convicted:	1957
Year Cleared:	1959
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Ohio
County or Region of Crime:	Stark
City of Crime:	Uniontown
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Harry Dale Bundy was wrongly convicted in 1957 of first-degree murder in Stark County, Ohio and sentenced to death. Three days before his scheduled execution a woman recognized his co-defendant's picture in a magazine, and after contacting authorities testified that he had told her that Bundy was innocent. Sheer luck saved him from execution. A new trial was ordered based on the new evidence and Bundy was acquitted on retrial. No compensation was awarded for the time Bundy spent on death row."
Conviction Caused By:	False informant implicating Bundy in murders he actually committed.
Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted after a retrial based on new witness supporting his innocence.
Defendant Aided By:	"Three days before his scheduled execution a woman recognized his co-defendant's picture in a magazine, and after contacting authorities testified that he had told her that Bundy was innocent."
Compensation Awarded:	No
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	39
Age When Released:	41
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 101+."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 249-250."
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Harry Dale Bundy

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1957

Year Convicted:

1957

Year Cleared:

1959

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Ohio

County or Region of Crime:

Stark

City of Crime:

Uniontown

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False informant implicating Bundy in murders he actually committed.

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted after a retrial based on new witness supporting his innocence.

Defendant Aided By:

"Three days before his scheduled execution a woman recognized his co-defendant's picture in a magazine, and after contacting authorities testified that he had told her that Bundy was innocent."

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

39

Age When Released:

41

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 101+."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 249-250."

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