I was the 100th person to be exonerated and released after being sentenced to death. Can we doubt there are more of us?
A Maricopa County judge sentenced me to death in 1992.
At the time of the murder for which I was convicted, the actual perpetrator, Ken Phillips, was on probation for a violent sexual offense. Three weeks after the crime for which I was sentenced to die, he sexually assaulted and choked a 7-year-old girl. He matched the description of a man seen near the location of the murder; it was later determined that shoe prints, palm prints and blood found at the scene matched him as well. Read More »