Central Park Five Sentenced Following Coerced Confessions

Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, and Antron McCray, teens aged 14–16 arrested in 1989, were sentenced following convictions based on coerced confessions they later recanted. Donald Trump had taken out full-page ads in New York newspapers calling for reinstatement of the death penalty targeting the five. All were eventually exonerated in 2002.