Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010) was wrongly convicted of murdering police officer Robert W. Wood and was subsequently sentenced to death. He served more than 12 years in prison and some of that time on death row. His death sentence was reduced through appeal to the United States Supreme Court, and eight years later he was released when evidence was uncovered to prove his innocence.His case is profiled in the 1988 documentary film The Thin Blue Line, and the evidence presented in the film had a significant impact on obtaining his release.
October 30, 2010, Washington Court House, Ohio, United States
Place Of Birth
Grove City, Ohio, USA
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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The man you see before you is here by the grace of God. The fact that it took 12 and a half years and a movie to prove my innocence should scare the hell out of everyone in this room and, if it doesn't, then that scares the hell out of me.
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His mother died in December, 2010 - two months after his own death at 61.
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Married the sister of a death-row prisoner.
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His mother died in December 2010. He is survived by his sister.
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He lived in his native Ohio upon his release in 1989; lived in Upstate New York; Houston, Texas area; and finally in Ohio.
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He was convicted and sentenced to death row in 1977 by lethal injection. On May 5,1979, the United States Supreme Court ordered a stay. His sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole. He was finally free in March 1989.
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