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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.
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.
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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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.
