Joseph Burrows, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American wrongfully convicted of murder
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About 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.
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