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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Imprisoned:
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Charge: |
Rape |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
Year Convicted: |
1937 |
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Cleared:
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Location
of Trial:
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Alabama |
Result:
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Not Judicially Exonerated - Executed |
Summary
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"Death Row Inmate executed. Collins was black man accused of raping a white woman, and an all-white jury deliberated 4 minutes before finding him guilty. The trial judge said: "An innocent man went to his death."" |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False testimony by the alleged victim and race prejudice. |
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Information Source 1: |
"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 106+." |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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