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Aug 29, 2023

Newly Discovered Death Row Exoneration in 1967 Murder Case

Larry Hudson has been added to DPIC’s Descriptions of Innocence page as a newly-discovered death row exoneration. Mr. Hudson was tried and sentenced to death for a robbery-homicide in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1967, when he was 19 years old. He was exonerated in 1993, when he was 46 years old. An eyewitness, Frank Wilson, testified at Mr. Hudson’s trial that he had picked Mr. Hudson out of a line-up prior to trial, but a police officer who had been present testified that Mr. Wilson had failed…