# Anthony Porter

Overturned · 1983

Anthony Porter (December 14, 1954 – July 5, 2021) was a Chicago resident convicted and sentenced to death in 1983 for the murder of two teenagers on the South Side of the city. He served 16 years on death row before he was exonerated in 1999 after new evidence was uncovered by Northwestern University professors and students from the Medill School of Journalism as part of their investigation for the school's…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3286636
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/anthony-porter-w3286636

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