Wrongly Convicted Database Record

Go to Database Search Page

Go to  Database Index Page

Ed Johnson


Years Imprisoned:

0.2

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death and Lynched

Year Convicted:

1906

Year Cleared:

2000

Location of Trial:

Tennessee

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Wrongly convicted in February 1906 of raping a white woman in Chattanoga, Tennessee. Sentenced to death, Johnson appealed his conviction to the United States Supreme Court on the basis he had not been accorded due process of law. The Sup Ct accepted Johnson's case for review and issued a stay. The county sheriff and judge did nothing to diffuse local outrage at what was viewed as meddling by the Sup Ct. A large mob seized Johnson from the county jail on March 19, 1906, and lynched him. On February 25, 2000, Johnson's conviction was posthumously set aside and his death sentence was vacated.

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:


Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Found?

Age When Imprisoned:

24

Age When Released:

Information Source 1:

Contempt of Court - The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that launched a hundred years of federalism, Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips, Jr., Anchor Books (NY), 1999

Information Location 1:

Information Source 2:

Information Location 2:

Information Source 3:

Information Location 3:

Information Source 4:

Information Location 4:

Information Source 5:

Information Location 5:

Ethnicity/Skin:

Black

Book About Case:

Book Information:

Book About Case (2):

Book Information (2):

Movie About Case:

Comments About Case:


Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org