Ralph Reno

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	3
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Year Convicted:	1925
Year Cleared:	1928
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Ralph Reno was wrongly convicted twice of a double murder and sentenced to death based on the eyewitnesses testimony of a neighbor who claimed he also tried to kill her. After his second conviction he received a stay just 7 hours before his scheduled execution. After he was acquitted following his third trial, he wrote that his "health had been ruined ... and I had a complete breakdown. ... Everything that I had built up in my first thirty-six years life was gone - money, job..." (MJ)"
Conviction Caused By:	Perjurious eyewitness testimony.
Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted after his third trial.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 341."
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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. 154+."
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Ralph Reno

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1925

Year Cleared:

1928

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjurious eyewitness testimony.

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted after his third trial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 341."

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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. 154+."

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