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James Joseph Richardson (December 26, 1935 – September 16, 2023) was an African-American man who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1968 for the October 1967 mass murder of his seven children.
Nov 4, 2020 · James Joseph Richardson was sentenced to death for poisoning his seven children in 1967, but he always maintained his innocence. He was exonerated in 1988 after a nurse revealed that his neighbor, Bessie Reece, had confessed to the murders.
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Richardson was wrongfully convicted of killing seven children in 1967 based on false testimony from jailhouse informants and suppressed evidence. He was exonerated in 1989 by a special prosecutor and received $1 million compensation from the state of Florida.
May 31, 2017 · James Joseph Richardson, a black farmworker from Florida, was falsely accused of poisoning and murdering his seven children in 1968. He spent 20 years in prison before a confession from the real killer and a corruption scandal freed him.
Time Simply Passes is a 2015 US documentary film chronicling the life and wrongful conviction of James Joseph Richardson.
James Joseph Richardson was an African-American man who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1968 for the October 1967 mass murder of his seven children. They died after eating a poisoned breakfast containing the organic phosphate pesticide parathion.
Apr 23, 1989 · Nearly 22 years have passed since seven of James Joseph Richardson's children and stepchildren died painful deaths after eating a lunch of rice and beans laced with pesticide.
