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Wrongly
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Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
Year Convicted: |
1660 |
Year
Cleared:
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1662 |
Location
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United Kingdom |
Result:
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Not Judicially Exonerated - Executed |
Summary
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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. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False confession by John Perry that implicated his mother and brother. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Alleged murder victim turned up alive.
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U.S. v. Westerdahl, 945 F.2d 1083, 1088 (9th Cir. 1991) |
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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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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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