Gordon Morris

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	23
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Year Convicted:	1953
Year Cleared:	1976
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Gordon Morris was a death row inmate wrongly convicted of murder in 1953. In one day, the jury was selected, the trial conducted, the jury verdict announced, and the sentence imposed. Morris' sentence was commuted to life in prison three days before his execution. Morris was released after 23 years of wrongful imprisonment."
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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. 149."
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Gordon Morris

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

23

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1953

Year Cleared:

1976

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 149."

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