Derrick
Jamison
SENTENCED IN
HAMILTON
COUNTY, OH20 YEARS IN PRISON,
ALL ON DEATH ROW;
EXONERATED IN 2005
Derrick Jamison was
arrested for the 1984
robbery and murder of
a Cincinnati bartender.
He was convicted based
on false testimony from
one of the real perpe-
trators of the crime,
who testified against
Jamison in exchange for
a lesser sentence. He
was scheduled for exe-
cution six times but each
time received a stay,
the last one 90 minutes
before he was to die. In
2000 a judge ordered a
new trial. His conviction
was overturned, and all
charges were dismissed
in 2005. Jamison, now 60,
educates others about
the flaws of the U.S. jus-
tice system and encour-
ages changes to it.
PREVIOUS PHOTOAlbert
Burrell
UNION COUNTY, LA13 YEARS IN PRISON,
ALL ON DEATH ROW;
EXONERATED IN 2001
Burrell, now 66, came
within 17 days of his
scheduled execution
in Louisiana before his
attorneys won a stay
in 1996. His conviction
for first-degree murder
in a double homicide
was overturned. He
was granted a new trial
after a judge ruled that
prosecutors had misled
the jury and failed to
turn over exculpatory
evidence. After the
state concluded that no
credible evidence linked
Burrell to the murders,
he was released.FIGURES ARE ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST YEAR AND DON’T INCLUDE TIME IN JAIL PRE-SENTENCING.