Who is Joseph Burrows
Joseph H. Burrows (October 5, 1953 – October 15, 2009) 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 Burrows, and the case was reopened. Burrows' attorney, Kathleen Zellner, persuaded the real killer, Gayle Potter, to confess at the post-conviction hearing. Burrows was released in 1994.
Chronology of events
On November 8, 1988, the body of 88-year-old farmer William E. Dulan was found at his home.
Gayle Potter, a cocaine addict, was picked up for forging a cheq...
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