Captive
Captive Study # 2 (Reginald Griffin)
Watercolor on paper
10" x 8"
2019
Reginald Griffin, a former death row inmate from Missouri, became the 143rd person in the U.S. to be exonerated and freed from death row since 1973, after the state dismissed all charges related to his death sentence on October 25. Griffin had been sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow inmate in 1983. His conviction was overturned in 2011 by the Missouri Supreme Court (Griffin v. Denney) because the state had withheld critical evidence. Griffin’s conviction relied on the testimony of two jailhouse informants who received benefits in exchange for their testimony.
10,945 Days
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4295