John Arthur Pender

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	9
Year Crime:	1911
Year Convicted:	1914
Year Cleared:	1920
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Oregon
County or Region of Crime:	Columbia
City of Crime:	Schnitzerville
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"John Pender was wrongly convicted in 1914 of the murder in 1911 of a mother and her son in Columbia County, Oregon. Pender was sentenced to death. Pender was granted a full and unconditional pardon on September 11, 1920 by Oregon Governor Ben Olcott based on the new evidence that another man had credibly confessed to the crimes."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Pender, Branson Get Full Pardons: Governor Frees Two in Prison For Murder, Special Report, The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, OR), September 12, 1920, pp. 1, 20"
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Information Source 2:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 151."
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John Arthur Pender

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

9

Year Crime:

1911

Year Convicted:

1914

Year Cleared:

1920

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Oregon

County or Region of Crime:

Columbia

City of Crime:

Schnitzerville

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Pender was granted a full and unconditional pardon on September 11, 1920 by Oregon Governor Ben Olcott based on the new evidence that another man had credibly confessed to the crimes."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Pender, Branson Get Full Pardons: Governor Frees Two in Prison For Murder, Special Report, The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, OR), September 12, 1920, pp. 1, 20"

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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. 151."

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