2015年7月9日 · David Keaton, the first man exon­er­at­ed from death row in the mod­ern era of the death penal­ty (1973-present), died on July 3 at the age of 63. Keaton was con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death in Florida in 1971 for the mur­der of an off-duty police offi­cer.

2015年7月8日 · David Keaton, a member of the Quincy Five and the first prisoner exonerated from death row, passed away at age 63 in Quincy, Florida, last week. Keaton was in poor health and had a history of heart problems, reports the Tallahassee Democrat.

2015年7月7日 · David Roby Keaton, one of the infamous Quincy Five and the nation's first prisoner exonerated from Death Row, has died. Keaton, 63, died July 3 in Quincy. Keaton, who had a history of heart...

Dave Keaton was arrested in 1971 for the murder of an off-duty police officer at a Florida convenience store. After three days of relentless interrogation – with threats, lies, and beatings – investigators coerced a confession from him.

2015年12月31日 · David Keaton (pic­tured, far left), the first man exon­er­at­ed from death row in the mod­ern era of the death penal­ty, died on July 3 at the age of 63. A teenaged Keaton was sen­tenced to death in Florida in 1971 for the mur­der of an off-duty police offi­cer.

2015年7月28日 · David Keaton, 63, the first man in the U.S. to be exonerated from death row, died July 3 in Florida. Keaton was one of the Quincy Five, a group of young, black men that lived in Quincy, Fla., a...

2015年7月10日 · Glover played the role of David Keaton, who after several days of interrogation confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. At the age of 18, Keaton was arrested and convicted of killing an off-duty law enforcement officer during a robbery at a convenience store.

Dave Keaton was arrested in 1971 for the murder of an off-duty police officer at a Florida convenience store. After three days of relentless interrogation – with threats, lies, and beatings – investigators coerced a confession from him.

The men – Johnny Lee Burns, Alphonso Figgers, Johnny Frederick, Dave Roby Keaton Jr. and David Charles Smith Jr. – were convicted on May 6, 1971. All were sentenced to death or given life sentences, even though at least two of them were teenagers and had never previously been accused of any crime.

The Exonerated combines first-person narrative with letters, transcripts, case files, and legal records to tell the stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row: Delbert Tibbs, Kerry Max Cook, Gary Gauger, David Keaton, Robert Earl Hayes and …