Levon "Bo" Jones is an American former
death row
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting executio ...
inmate.
Conviction and release
Jones was convicted and sentenced to death in
North Carolina
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in 1993 on a count of
first-degree murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse ...
for a fatal shooting which occurred in 1987.
The conviction was overturned by a federal judge in 2006 for inadequate defense from his attorney.
While preparing for retrial, a key witness admitted to lying.
Charges were subsequently dropped, and Jones was released from prison on May 2, 2008, after spending fifteen years on death row.
Jones was the third person to be released from death row in the
United States
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in 2008, after
Kennedy Brewer and
Glen Chapman, following an overturning of their convictions and the dropping of charges.
See also
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List of exonerated death row inmates
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted. Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were ...
References
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Overturned convictions in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American people wrongfully convicted of murder