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Catholic wrongly convicted seeks end to death penalty

By George P. Matysek Jr.2/15/2007

The Catholic Review (www.catholicreview.org)CAMBRIDGE, Md. (The Catholic Review) - If anyone has experienced sheer terror, it’s Kirk Bloodsworth.AdvertisementTried and found guilty of the brutal rape and murder of a 9-year-old Rosedale, Md., girl, the barrel-chested crabber from the Eastern Shore was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for his horrific crimes.

But Mr. Bloodsworth didn’t have anything to do with what he was accused of.

A former Marine with no criminal record, he had been wrongly convicted and would later become the first American on death row to be exonerated by DNA testing.

But as he was led onto the grounds of the Maryland State Penitentiary in Baltimore, Md., in 1985 on his first day on death row, no one believed his story - least of all the other prisoners.

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