# Joseph Burrows

Overturned · 1988

Joseph H. Burrows (October 5, 1953 – October 15, 2009) was an American man who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of farmer William E. Dulan at his home in Iroquois County, Illinois, in 1988. After his conviction and sentence to death in 1989, Burrows was held for nearly five years on death row. Peter Rooney, a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, obtained a recantation from a key witness against…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=11950318
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/joseph-burrows-w11950318

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