JUAN MELENDEZ A farm worker who was wrongly convicted of murder and spending 17 1/2 years on Death Row in FL. Juan says "Lots of times I wanted to commit suicide [while in prison]. Beautiful dreams of my childhood took me out of those thoughts. That's God's work." There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime at his trial, only the testimony of questionable witnesses. The conviction was overturned when another man confessed to the crime. ANIBAL JARRAMILLO Conviction overturned on appeal when evidence against him was deemed weak, "not legally sufficient to support a conviction." The evidence seems to instead point to the victim's roommate. ANTHONY BROWN Acquitted during a retrial. His partner-in-crime, who got life in prison instead of the DP, admitted he had lied during the trial. ANTHONY RAY PEEK After 9 years on Death Row, he was acquitted during his 3rd retrial (to be acquitted means you are found not guilty of a crime you were previously convicted of). Hair evidence as explained by an expert witness was found to be false. JUAN RAMOS No physical evidence linked Juan to the crime. The Florida Supreme Court granted him a new trial because of the prosecution's improper use of evidence. He was acquitted at retrial. BRADLEY P. SCOTT Arrested 10 years after the crime. The evidence supporting his alibi had been lost. His conviction was based on shaky eyewitness testimony. Released from Death Row by the Florida Supreme Court while his case was appealed. The court found that the evidence against him was "not sufficient to support a finding of guilt." ROBERT HAYES Acquitted of murder after being granted a new trial by the Florida Supreme Court. DNA evidence proved the hairs found clutched in the victim's hands were from a white man and Hayes is black. TROY LEE JONES Released after 14 years in prison. After the California Supreme Court granted him a new trial, the state dropped the charges rather than retry him. The defense attorney in his original trial was found to have failed to interview witnesses, failed to obtain police reports, and while cross-examining a witness damaged his own client by getting the witness to reveal harmful testimony. JUDY HANEY Her court-appointed defense attorney came to court drunk. The judge held the lawyer in contempt of court and ordered the lawyer to spend a night in jail. The very next day, the lawyer was allowed to continue representing Haney in her death penalty case. The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld her death sentence and she is still on Death Row. WANDA JEAN ALLEN Executed by the state of Oklahoma in 2001. Her court-appointed lawyer had never tried a death penalty case before and wasn't confident in his abilities. He asked the public defender's office to either remove him from the case or to offer him assistance. It did neither. The lawyer was only paid $800 to represent Wanda. He did not tell the jury that Wanda was mentally retarded (prior to 2002, it was legal in the US to execute the mentally retarded). EARL WASHINGTON A mentally retarded Virginia man, he was facing the death sentence prior to 2002 when the US stopped executing the mentally retarded. He wound up on Death Row after confessing to a murder in a series of confusing statements. At times he described the victim as white and at other times black. The governor commuted his sentence. He was cleared of the crime through DNA tests. In 2007, another man, Kenneth Tinsley, admitted he was the murderer. DELMA BANKS, JR. The US Supreme Court has agreed to review this case. The only evidence against Banks was the testimony of a jailhouse informant whose arson charge was dismissed in exchange for his testimony. Also, the defense lawyer did not properly investigate his client's case in order to support Banks' alibi that he was out-of-state at the time of the murder.