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September 1990

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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.

Events

  1. September 11, 1990
    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.

  2. September 11, 1990
    Central Park Five Sentenced on Coerced Confessions

    Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, and Antron McCray — teens 14-16, arrested 1989 — were sentenced based on coerced confessions they later recanted. Donald Trump ran full-page death penalty ads targeting them. All were exonerated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed; the city paid $41 million in 2014.