A man who spent 20 years in prison for a wrongful conviction has died at at the age of 47. Christopher Tapp was convicted of rape and murder in 1996 until a team from the Innocence Project proved he was convicted with faulty DNA evidence.
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I hate very sad stories like these, its not fair!!
Notice nowhere did they say he was innocent, just that he was convicted with faulty evidence.
moral of the story – No one is untouchable
How come they never take a polygraph? He got released on a technicality…that don't make you innocent
Ummm how did both of them die?
There is no justice and no god..
This world is just full of evil and injustice. Meanwhile, evidenced, proven and with video murderers and criminals are let go early or on bail, to commit crimes again.
Rest in peace. Another innocent soul.
Dope is a lot stronger on the outside
This why I wonder if there is a God to let this happen.
What a travesty!! 😢😭😱😖🤬😠
Is very suspicious that they just got compensating and mysteriously die in accident him and his wife..?
They need to lock up the prosecuting attorney for 20 years
Why do our BEST detectives, militarists, and historians believe that, "because they want to be let off the hook, a suspect will VOLUNTARILY come up with an ENTIRE, POTENTIALLY TRUE TESTIMONY which suggests that he's innocent, rather than to be accustomed to waiting for everyone to shut up and then going ahead and solving everyone's problems, in hopes that they will NEVER speak while looking at his face EVER AGAIN (THAT being the ONLY thing which he ought to be expected to voluntarily do)?"
Did the HUNS do that? I know you learned this from the family of the president of India (I'm joking but still racist) –a northerner. That's who's putting these thoughts into your pure minds.
Wrongfully incarcerated for 20 yrs…gets out, takes 7 yrs to get compensated …2 months after receiving it, him & his wife passes away. How can you not question life at times man?!? This is heartbreaking
He was never meant to live his life in how own terms.
I've heard so many of these stories in the last few years. People wrongfully convicted, freed but then dying soon after they were released. The universe is a strange beast
I’m from Idaho Falls.
I so appreciate the Innocence project.
Sad