Henry Arthur Drake

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	10
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Year Convicted:	1977
Year Cleared:	1987
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Georgia
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Henry Arthur Drake was wrongly convicted of murder based on the perjured testimony of the prosecution's star witness. He was sentenced to death. After Drake spent 10 years on death row the actual murderer, the prosecution's star witness, admitted that Drake had nothing to do with the murder and wasn't present at the scene. In 1987 Georgia's pardon board unanimously voted to pardon Henry Drake."
Conviction Caused By:	"Perjured testimony of the actual killer, who was the prosecution's star witness."
Innocence Proved By:	Confession by the actual killer that Henry Drake had nothing to do with the murder.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“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, 300 ( © 1992)."
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Information Source 2:	Death Penalty Information Center
Information Location 2:	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html
Information Source 3:	"LA Times, 12-23-88"
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Henry Arthur Drake

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1977

Year Cleared:

1987

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Georgia

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Perjured testimony of the actual killer, who was the prosecution's star witness."

Innocence Proved By:

Confession by the actual killer that Henry Drake had nothing to do with the murder.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“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, 300 ( © 1992)."

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Death Penalty Information Center

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html

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"LA Times, 12-23-88"

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