Kirk Bloodsworth
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Kirk Noble Bloodsworth was the first American to have been first convicted of murder (for the 1984 killing of a nine-year-old Maryland girl) and then, in 1993, exonerated by DNA fingerprinting. Kirk spent almost nine years in jail, two of which were on death row. DNA evidence also identified the real killer, Kimberly Shay Ruffner, but not until 2003.
He is now an anti-capital punishment activist, and is the subject of the book Bloodsworth: the True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA by Tim Junkin.
[edit] External links
- CNN.com's profile of Kirk Bloodsworth
- Kirk Bloodsworth on the Oprah Winfrey Show
- Kirk Bloodsworth at the Innocence Project
- Article on the 2003 capture of the real killer, at TruthInJustice.org
