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John Perry

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death and Executed
Year Convicted:	1660
Year Cleared:	1662
Location of Trial:	United Kingdom
Result:	Not Judicially Exonerated - Executed
Summary of Case:	"Three Perry family members were executed for a murder they didn't commit: two brothers and their mother. John Perry confessed to the murder of William Harrison after intensive interrogation, and implicated his brother and mother. Perry retracted his confession and his brother and mother professed their innocence. All were convicted of Mr. Harrison's murder and executed. Two years after the executions Mr. Harrison turned up alive. He had been held as a slave in Turkey after being kidnapped. He escaped when his "master" died. As a result of the Perry's execution for almost 300 years it was a principle of English law that "no body, no crime.""
Conviction Caused By:	False confession by John Perry that implicated his mother and brother.
Innocence Proved By:	Alleged murder victim turned up alive two years after execution of the three Perry family members.
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Information Source 1:	""The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony," Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 235, 332."
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Information Source 2:	""Corroborating confessions: an empirical analysis of legal safeguards against false confessions, " C. J. Ayling, Wisconsin Law Review, 4, 1121- 1204, 1984."
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Ethnicity/Skin:	White
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John Perry

Years Imprisoned:

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death and Executed

Year Convicted:

1660

Year Cleared:

1662

Location of Trial:

United Kingdom

Result:

Not Judicially Exonerated - Executed

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession by John Perry that implicated his mother and brother.

Innocence Proved By:

Alleged murder victim turned up alive two years after execution of the three Perry family members.

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""The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony," Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 235, 332."

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""Corroborating confessions: an empirical analysis of legal safeguards against false confessions, " C. J. Ayling, Wisconsin Law Review, 4, 1121- 1204, 1984."

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White

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