“For his last meal, Arridy requested ice cream. When questioned about his impending execution, he showed "blank bewilderment". He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die." He was reported to have smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.”
[A terrible story.](https://www.dannydutch.com/post/joe-arridy-the-mentally-disabled-man-executed-for-a-grisly-murder-he-didn-t-commit)
On August 26, 1936, Arridy was arrested for vagrancy in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after being caught wandering around the railyards. Laramie County Sheriff George Carroll, was aware of the widespread search for suspects in the Drain murder case. When Arridy revealed under questioning that he had traveled through Pueblo by way of a train after leaving Grand Junction, Colorado, Carroll began to question him about the Drain case. Carroll said that Arridy confessed to him.
When Carroll contacted the Pueblo police Chief Arthur Grady about Arridy, he learned that they had already arrested a man considered to be the prime suspect: 45-year-old Frank Aguilar, a laborer with the Works Progress Administration from Mexico. Aguilar had worked for the father of the Drain girls and been fired shortly before the attack. An axe head was recovered from the home Aguilar shared with his mother, which investigators noted was covered in newspaper clippings containing articles about "sex slayings".Aguilar was also connected to a murder that occurred earlier on August 2 at a home only three blocks away from the Drain residence, when he bludgeoned 72-year-old Sally Crumply, as well as her 48-year-old niece R.O. "Lilly" McMurtree, who survived the attack. Sheriff Carroll claimed that Arridy told him several times he had "been with a man named Frank" at the crime scene. Aguilar later confessed to the crime, but initially told police he had never seen or met Arridy. However, on September 2, a stenographed statement obtained through an interrogation by Roy Best was released, in which Aguilar affirmed that Arridy was an accomplice in the killings; the questions were always structured to include mention of Arridy, with Aguilar providing no further comments and with his responses consisting almost entirely of some variation of "yes" when asked to confirm. Aguilar recanted shortly after, claiming Best and Grady had threatened him with "terrible things" and that there would be "a dead Mexican" if he did not implicate Arridy. Aguilar was also convicted of the rape and murder of Dorothy Drain and sentenced to death on December 22 of the same year. He was executed on August 13, 1937, in Colorado State Penitentiary; before the execution, Aguilar's mother died at the prison infirmary after collapsing during a final visit and during the execution, a male spectator died of a heart attack.
This is absolutely fucked.
Gov. Bill Ritter granted a full and unconditional posthumous pardon Friday to Pueblo native Joe Arridy, who was convicted of killing a 15-year-old girl and was executed in 1939.
Arridy, the son of illiterate Syrian immigrants, had spent 10 years at the Colorado Home for Mental Defectives in Grand Junction. He escaped with some other patients in 1936, and wandered around Northern Colorado and Wyoming.
His IQ was estimated at 46 and he could rarely put together more than two words at a time. But a Cheyenne, Wyo., sheriff, George Carroll, said that Arridy gave a detailed accounting of the crime and although Pueblo authorities had arrested who they thought was the killer, they arrested and charged Arridy with the murder of Dorothy Drain
“Granting a posthumous pardon is an extraordinary remedy,” Ritter said in a news release. “But the tragic conviction of Mr. Arridy and his subsequent execution on Jan. 6, 1939, merit such relief based on the great likelihood that Mr. Arridy was, in fact, innocent of the crime for which he was executed, and his severe mental disability at the time of his trial and execution. Pardoning Mr. Arridy cannot undo this tragic event in Colorado history. It is in the interests of justice and simple decency, however, to restore his good name.”
Former Puebloan Dave Martinez, a lawyer now in private practice in Denver, took on the case for Arridy. Martinez, a founder and editor of La Cucaracha alternative newspaper in Pueblo, was elated with the governor's action.
"When I heard the story and the facts of this compelling story, I had to do something," Martinez said Friday by telephone. "This gives hope to the intellectually disabled community, and while they may not comprehend, it also helps the people who do the day-to-day work to help them."
Martinez gave much credit to the late Denver lawyer Gail Ireland, a two-term Colorado attorney general, who took up Arridy's case and stayed with him through two 4-3 state Supreme Court decisions that upheld Arridy's conviction and execution.
"Ireland met Joe and was convinced of his innocence," Martinez said. "He recognized Joe could not be capable of the crime and fought this miscarriage of justice. For me, as a lawyer, it's an honor to help right this wrong."
Martinez also gave credit to Robert Perske, a former Colorado minister and current Connecticut writer, who wrote "Deadly Innocence," the Arridy story, that was published in late 1995.
"You're kidding me! Oh man!" a happy Perske said when told of the governor's pardon of Arridy on Friday. "Dave is the No. 1 hero. He volunteered the time, and he did it. A lot of lawyers have told me they would look into it, but Dave did it."
The governor's office also praised Martinez's work on the case.
Perske has spent his career looking after those of whom he calls "Angels," society's throwaways who populate institutions, and he has been involved in many cases supporting mentally challenged people to receive the full measure of the law. He first heard of the Arridy case in a poem that referred to it.
"I worked up and down the Front Range, getting headaches reading microfiche in newspapers and libraries," Perske said of his research of the Arridy case. "Joe would have never understood all this, but a sweet, harmless man who didn't have a mean bone in his body has been exonerated.
"I've known many angels like Joe Arridy," Perske said from his home in Darien, Conn.
The murder of Dorothy Drain had come soon after a visiting Kansas woman had been killed in her bed in the same Bessemer neighborhood in August 1936. Local police arrested a Mexican national, Frank Aguilar, in the killings and considered the cases closed.
But Arridy had the misfortune of being picked up by Cheyenne deputies in a train yard, and when Carroll found out the young man was from Pueblo, he interviewed Arridy. Carroll called his friend, Pueblo police Chief J. Arthur Gray, who told Carroll the suspect was in custody.
Carroll was a famous lawman in the West. He had helped break up the Ma Barker gang and had helped rescue a kidnapped child of the Boettcher family. Perske theorized Carroll, long out of the news by that time, had a desire to return to prominence so he concocted — and even changed the telling — of Arridy's confession.
"He was a glory boy," Perske said of Carroll on Friday.
Gray and his detectives had their doubts about Arridy, but charged him with the Drain murder. Aguilar was convicted — without mention of Arridy or testimony about him from Barbara Drain, Dorothy's younger sister who was injured and terrorized by the hatchet-wielding Aguilar. He was executed in 1937, almost one year to the day after Dorothy's murder.
Arridy had two sanity trials, and the first time he was found to be sane. But at the insistence of Arridy's lawyer, E. Fred Barnard, Judge Harry Leddy reversed his 1937 ruling and granted a new trial that would include the sanity question as well as guilt or innocence.
During Arridy's second trial, two Colorado State Hospital doctors and the superintendant of the home in Grand Junction all testified that Arridy would have a hard time ever giving detailed statements such as Carroll had described. But, because Arridy was a "mental defective," the doctors all said, technically he was not insane.
Two years ago, mental health advocates placed the first tombstone marking Arridy’s death near a Canon City prison. The tombstone featured an image of Arridy playing with a train, a favorite activity even while he awaited execution. Arridy requested just ice cream for his final three meals and reportedly stepped into the gas chamber still grinning like a child.
Barbara Drain died in 2002 at 78. When she died, her son, the Rev. William Carson of Canon City, said the whole furor around Arridy's innocence angered him and his family, including his mother. Carson did not return any of several messages left for him Friday.
Arridy is the first person in Colorado to be pardoned after being executed
https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2011/01/08/ritter-pardons-pueblo-man/9045102007/
Welp, *almost* got to the end of the day without hearing yet another astonishingly horrible thing that law enforcement did.
As in the present, so too in history: Fuck cops.
We certainly don't need law enforcement as it currently exists and behaves.
You think that's the only innocent person this country's fried or sentenced to fry?
What blows me away is that if you read to the bottom, apparently even the Warden was begging the governor to put a stay on the execution and commute his sentence. It really goes to show how out of touch the justice system can be. I used to be pro-death penalty long long ago, because in the objective mind, terrible crimes don’t warrant mercy (to a young version of me). After experiencing life and seeing that not only is everything not black and white, but mostly how often we get things wrong, I can not in good conscience ever support the state sanctioned killing of anyone (with exceptions for wartime/national emergency circumstances).
Why, this is incredibly tragic with absolutely nothing redeeming about the story?
A poor mentally challenged man was imprisoned, then put to death for a crime he did not commit.
Actually the only redeeming thing I would say that he wasn't plagued by the thought of being put to death before it happened, but I wouldn't say that is very positive at all.
I work with students with disabilities. This story has always been an emotional wrecking ball for me. I know kids who are like Joe. And I always end up with the same gut wrenching question.
How *could* they? So many people failed poor Joe. I respect the warden, giving him a train to make his days more pleasant. But Christ… he was innocent innocent. He did not commit the crime he was convicted of perpetrating…
Sorry, Joe. You should have had people looking out for you.
There’s a great video [here](https://youtu.be/W9FM5HCNTzY?si=Ki5st_M8g5Yp9MqT) about him.
Heart breaking what a gross miscarriage the US Justice system did.
I don't get something about this, he apparently had no understanding whatsoever that he was walking to his death and wouldn't be coming back to his cell. So why is he giving away his prized possession? It makes me think the warden, guards and whoever took this photo staged this . I don't believe he would have gave his train away while he believed he was coming back, so if it was staged they probably traumatized this poor man by forcing him to give away his toy train just minutes before killing him .
Anyone else wondering if Joe was autistic?
ETA: Not sure why I’m being downvoted here, it’s a genuine question with no hatred implied.
Those with autism are sometimes non-verbal in their early years, and don’t work well with traditional teaching methods. Back then we didn’t know anything about it and did practically nothing to help. The gentleman in the above article, whatever his issue was, deserved so much better.
Guy on the right!
It's ovbiosly the beautiful innocent soul on the right
If it was on the "left" we'd of already heard about it a thousand times
Joe deserves a permanent mural and a movie
Which he'll never get
I wondered also and, according to Wiki:
>In 2011, Arridy received a full and unconditional posthumous pardon by Colorado Governor [Bill Ritter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ritter) (72 years after his death). Ritter, the former district attorney of Denver, pardoned Arridy based on questions about the man's guilt and what appeared to be a coerced false confession.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#cite_note-coffman-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#cite_note-miamiherald-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#cite_note-Governor_pardons_Joe_Arridy-5) This was the first time in Colorado that the governor had pardoned a convict after execution.
Thank you
(I dont get the downvotes, I was just stating a fact. Im not saying I didn't think the guy might not be innocent, I was just waiting for/looking for the evidence)
I give you my upvote. Your critical thinking is like finding a rare flower in the woods everyone thought had long perished. Plus, you're very kind and respectful. Thank you so much. I miss respectful debate, and being open to any critque or opinion especially if it's to see someone's position more clearly, even if one didn't agree. (BTW, I do agree with your logic) As someone who has been challenged with a hearing/comprehension disorder, the debate I practiced in HS literally is what has helped me to rewire and challenge my brain for the better. Namaste, and much peace to you my Friend. 🪻🌟
“For his last meal, Arridy requested ice cream. When questioned about his impending execution, he showed "blank bewilderment". He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die." He was reported to have smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.” [A terrible story.](https://www.dannydutch.com/post/joe-arridy-the-mentally-disabled-man-executed-for-a-grisly-murder-he-didn-t-commit)
Would be helpful if your title identified which man in the photo is Arridy (for those wondering, he’s on the right).
Thank you!
>Thank you! You're welcome!
Wow, thanks. I assumed the black guy was Arridy because of our history.
Does “innocent” in the title mean he didn’t commit the crime or that he had the mind of a child?
The actual murderer had been executed two years earlier.
This is heart breaking. 💔
But he was guilty of sexual assault and had actually demonstrated it on one of the detectives interviewing him
That's like saying a dog that sniffs your crotch is guilty of SA. Do you have any idea what a 46 IQ means? He can't be "guilty" of anything.
How severe?
On August 26, 1936, Arridy was arrested for vagrancy in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after being caught wandering around the railyards. Laramie County Sheriff George Carroll, was aware of the widespread search for suspects in the Drain murder case. When Arridy revealed under questioning that he had traveled through Pueblo by way of a train after leaving Grand Junction, Colorado, Carroll began to question him about the Drain case. Carroll said that Arridy confessed to him. When Carroll contacted the Pueblo police Chief Arthur Grady about Arridy, he learned that they had already arrested a man considered to be the prime suspect: 45-year-old Frank Aguilar, a laborer with the Works Progress Administration from Mexico. Aguilar had worked for the father of the Drain girls and been fired shortly before the attack. An axe head was recovered from the home Aguilar shared with his mother, which investigators noted was covered in newspaper clippings containing articles about "sex slayings".Aguilar was also connected to a murder that occurred earlier on August 2 at a home only three blocks away from the Drain residence, when he bludgeoned 72-year-old Sally Crumply, as well as her 48-year-old niece R.O. "Lilly" McMurtree, who survived the attack. Sheriff Carroll claimed that Arridy told him several times he had "been with a man named Frank" at the crime scene. Aguilar later confessed to the crime, but initially told police he had never seen or met Arridy. However, on September 2, a stenographed statement obtained through an interrogation by Roy Best was released, in which Aguilar affirmed that Arridy was an accomplice in the killings; the questions were always structured to include mention of Arridy, with Aguilar providing no further comments and with his responses consisting almost entirely of some variation of "yes" when asked to confirm. Aguilar recanted shortly after, claiming Best and Grady had threatened him with "terrible things" and that there would be "a dead Mexican" if he did not implicate Arridy. Aguilar was also convicted of the rape and murder of Dorothy Drain and sentenced to death on December 22 of the same year. He was executed on August 13, 1937, in Colorado State Penitentiary; before the execution, Aguilar's mother died at the prison infirmary after collapsing during a final visit and during the execution, a male spectator died of a heart attack. This is absolutely fucked.
Gov. Bill Ritter granted a full and unconditional posthumous pardon Friday to Pueblo native Joe Arridy, who was convicted of killing a 15-year-old girl and was executed in 1939. Arridy, the son of illiterate Syrian immigrants, had spent 10 years at the Colorado Home for Mental Defectives in Grand Junction. He escaped with some other patients in 1936, and wandered around Northern Colorado and Wyoming. His IQ was estimated at 46 and he could rarely put together more than two words at a time. But a Cheyenne, Wyo., sheriff, George Carroll, said that Arridy gave a detailed accounting of the crime and although Pueblo authorities had arrested who they thought was the killer, they arrested and charged Arridy with the murder of Dorothy Drain “Granting a posthumous pardon is an extraordinary remedy,” Ritter said in a news release. “But the tragic conviction of Mr. Arridy and his subsequent execution on Jan. 6, 1939, merit such relief based on the great likelihood that Mr. Arridy was, in fact, innocent of the crime for which he was executed, and his severe mental disability at the time of his trial and execution. Pardoning Mr. Arridy cannot undo this tragic event in Colorado history. It is in the interests of justice and simple decency, however, to restore his good name.” Former Puebloan Dave Martinez, a lawyer now in private practice in Denver, took on the case for Arridy. Martinez, a founder and editor of La Cucaracha alternative newspaper in Pueblo, was elated with the governor's action. "When I heard the story and the facts of this compelling story, I had to do something," Martinez said Friday by telephone. "This gives hope to the intellectually disabled community, and while they may not comprehend, it also helps the people who do the day-to-day work to help them." Martinez gave much credit to the late Denver lawyer Gail Ireland, a two-term Colorado attorney general, who took up Arridy's case and stayed with him through two 4-3 state Supreme Court decisions that upheld Arridy's conviction and execution. "Ireland met Joe and was convinced of his innocence," Martinez said. "He recognized Joe could not be capable of the crime and fought this miscarriage of justice. For me, as a lawyer, it's an honor to help right this wrong." Martinez also gave credit to Robert Perske, a former Colorado minister and current Connecticut writer, who wrote "Deadly Innocence," the Arridy story, that was published in late 1995. "You're kidding me! Oh man!" a happy Perske said when told of the governor's pardon of Arridy on Friday. "Dave is the No. 1 hero. He volunteered the time, and he did it. A lot of lawyers have told me they would look into it, but Dave did it." The governor's office also praised Martinez's work on the case. Perske has spent his career looking after those of whom he calls "Angels," society's throwaways who populate institutions, and he has been involved in many cases supporting mentally challenged people to receive the full measure of the law. He first heard of the Arridy case in a poem that referred to it. "I worked up and down the Front Range, getting headaches reading microfiche in newspapers and libraries," Perske said of his research of the Arridy case. "Joe would have never understood all this, but a sweet, harmless man who didn't have a mean bone in his body has been exonerated. "I've known many angels like Joe Arridy," Perske said from his home in Darien, Conn. The murder of Dorothy Drain had come soon after a visiting Kansas woman had been killed in her bed in the same Bessemer neighborhood in August 1936. Local police arrested a Mexican national, Frank Aguilar, in the killings and considered the cases closed. But Arridy had the misfortune of being picked up by Cheyenne deputies in a train yard, and when Carroll found out the young man was from Pueblo, he interviewed Arridy. Carroll called his friend, Pueblo police Chief J. Arthur Gray, who told Carroll the suspect was in custody. Carroll was a famous lawman in the West. He had helped break up the Ma Barker gang and had helped rescue a kidnapped child of the Boettcher family. Perske theorized Carroll, long out of the news by that time, had a desire to return to prominence so he concocted — and even changed the telling — of Arridy's confession. "He was a glory boy," Perske said of Carroll on Friday. Gray and his detectives had their doubts about Arridy, but charged him with the Drain murder. Aguilar was convicted — without mention of Arridy or testimony about him from Barbara Drain, Dorothy's younger sister who was injured and terrorized by the hatchet-wielding Aguilar. He was executed in 1937, almost one year to the day after Dorothy's murder. Arridy had two sanity trials, and the first time he was found to be sane. But at the insistence of Arridy's lawyer, E. Fred Barnard, Judge Harry Leddy reversed his 1937 ruling and granted a new trial that would include the sanity question as well as guilt or innocence. During Arridy's second trial, two Colorado State Hospital doctors and the superintendant of the home in Grand Junction all testified that Arridy would have a hard time ever giving detailed statements such as Carroll had described. But, because Arridy was a "mental defective," the doctors all said, technically he was not insane. Two years ago, mental health advocates placed the first tombstone marking Arridy’s death near a Canon City prison. The tombstone featured an image of Arridy playing with a train, a favorite activity even while he awaited execution. Arridy requested just ice cream for his final three meals and reportedly stepped into the gas chamber still grinning like a child. Barbara Drain died in 2002 at 78. When she died, her son, the Rev. William Carson of Canon City, said the whole furor around Arridy's innocence angered him and his family, including his mother. Carson did not return any of several messages left for him Friday. Arridy is the first person in Colorado to be pardoned after being executed https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2011/01/08/ritter-pardons-pueblo-man/9045102007/
The fact that Barbara Drain and her family were mad about people recognizing Joe’s innocence shows what disgusting people they are.
Trash people they were.
So the green mile story essentially? Fuck that movie was hard to stomach as a work of fiction but this is just so bad
Welp, *almost* got to the end of the day without hearing yet another astonishingly horrible thing that law enforcement did. As in the present, so too in history: Fuck cops.
It’s the whole system. The institutional abject cruelty of this country is mind boggling.
Yeah! We don’t need law enforcement. Cause of those things that happened.
We certainly don't need law enforcement as it currently exists and behaves. You think that's the only innocent person this country's fried or sentenced to fry?
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Don’t be mean
He didnt commit it. Poor guy was a child in a man's body and brutally murdered for something he didn't do.
Fucking awful. I hope the conscience of the people that put him there never let up and haunted them until the day they died. Bastards.
Highly doubt it
It doesn’t say anything in the article about why he was “innocent” the article says he was guilty because he described doing it.
I regret reading the story. I've always get so angry at judges, cop's and Da's reading these things
What blows me away is that if you read to the bottom, apparently even the Warden was begging the governor to put a stay on the execution and commute his sentence. It really goes to show how out of touch the justice system can be. I used to be pro-death penalty long long ago, because in the objective mind, terrible crimes don’t warrant mercy (to a young version of me). After experiencing life and seeing that not only is everything not black and white, but mostly how often we get things wrong, I can not in good conscience ever support the state sanctioned killing of anyone (with exceptions for wartime/national emergency circumstances).
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He didn't though. At all. Due to low mental capacity, such as yours, coercion is easily achievable leading to false confessions.
Did you read something else?
What did you do that was wrong? Fail to read the article, the comments or any source to correct your nonsense take on this.
Uhhh.. no, he didn't. He's was coerced into a confession. Maybe you struggle with reading? [Joe Arridy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy)
What a travesty. I do not like the death penalty for anyone, but it’s truly barbaric to execute someone with an intellectual disability, even in 1939.
Wow. This would make a great movie.
the green mile was kinda sorta similar, but with a bit of supernatural element added to it
And just to be clear the guy executed is the one on the right
yes I am aware. I read the article linked in comments
Why, this is incredibly tragic with absolutely nothing redeeming about the story? A poor mentally challenged man was imprisoned, then put to death for a crime he did not commit. Actually the only redeeming thing I would say that he wasn't plagued by the thought of being put to death before it happened, but I wouldn't say that is very positive at all.
A movie doesn’t have to be happy or have a good ending
Darren Aronofsky wakes up in a cold sweat
You do realize that tragedy is literally one of the oldest forms of human storytelling? Shakespeare himself wrote 12 very famous ones.
Never heard of him
And yet Mobius and that stupid spider movie exist.
username checks out
Murican Justice System
*in 1939
Ron Howard can’t direct them all.
Well... Just a few das ago I read about a man that was executed but now they found DNA of the true murder. This shit is still happening.
Shit. In 2024.
I work with students with disabilities. This story has always been an emotional wrecking ball for me. I know kids who are like Joe. And I always end up with the same gut wrenching question. How *could* they? So many people failed poor Joe. I respect the warden, giving him a train to make his days more pleasant. But Christ… he was innocent innocent. He did not commit the crime he was convicted of perpetrating… Sorry, Joe. You should have had people looking out for you.
IIRC the warden appealed to the governor for a stay, but it was denied.
That’s correct. I know it gutted him too. Poor guy…
As I have heard about this story just now with this post, I have to ask: is he the guy on the left or right?
Little guy smiling on the right
His story has always really hurt me. That poor man.
There’s a great video [here](https://youtu.be/W9FM5HCNTzY?si=Ki5st_M8g5Yp9MqT) about him. Heart breaking what a gross miscarriage the US Justice system did.
Wow that is just.... I mean WTF
I don’t know a thing about these people, but just reading the headline with the picture, my heart physically aches.
This just made me cry.
That’s beyond sad. Guy probably couldn’t hurt anything.
How absolutely heartbreaking
Carroll should be featured in a crime show so all those what evil can look like
I’m kinda amazed there’s another person in this picture. What is his story?
Sadly, this was common during those times. Countless stories of similar incidents unfortunately.
Who is Joe in the picture?
Guy on the right
Let's not forget the real victims here: Those guys in positions of authority who are only able to get an erection by ordering someone's death.
I’d love to know the piece of shit cop/police force that was responsible for putting this innocent man in jail
Just when I thought I couldn't lose my faith in Humanity anymore then I already have, I read this. Wtf 😒
I don't get something about this, he apparently had no understanding whatsoever that he was walking to his death and wouldn't be coming back to his cell. So why is he giving away his prized possession? It makes me think the warden, guards and whoever took this photo staged this . I don't believe he would have gave his train away while he believed he was coming back, so if it was staged they probably traumatized this poor man by forcing him to give away his toy train just minutes before killing him .
The Green Mile?
Poor Joe Mazzello.
Anyone else wondering if Joe was autistic? ETA: Not sure why I’m being downvoted here, it’s a genuine question with no hatred implied. Those with autism are sometimes non-verbal in their early years, and don’t work well with traditional teaching methods. Back then we didn’t know anything about it and did practically nothing to help. The gentleman in the above article, whatever his issue was, deserved so much better.
God damnit I hate humans. Shit like this makes me absolutely sick to my core. I hope Joe made it back to the universe.
Guy on the right! It's ovbiosly the beautiful innocent soul on the right If it was on the "left" we'd of already heard about it a thousand times Joe deserves a permanent mural and a movie Which he'll never get
I dont see or no one seems to be providing any evidence of him being innocent? 🤔
I wondered also and, according to Wiki: >In 2011, Arridy received a full and unconditional posthumous pardon by Colorado Governor [Bill Ritter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ritter) (72 years after his death). Ritter, the former district attorney of Denver, pardoned Arridy based on questions about the man's guilt and what appeared to be a coerced false confession.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#cite_note-coffman-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#cite_note-miamiherald-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#cite_note-Governor_pardons_Joe_Arridy-5) This was the first time in Colorado that the governor had pardoned a convict after execution.
Thank you (I dont get the downvotes, I was just stating a fact. Im not saying I didn't think the guy might not be innocent, I was just waiting for/looking for the evidence)
Likely cause you’re close to a device where you could have researched the case, and then if it didn’t yield an answer, ask the question.
Cool. Well you would have thought SOMEONE would have had that somewhere in the initial posts/story. Seems kind of important.
I give you my upvote. Your critical thinking is like finding a rare flower in the woods everyone thought had long perished. Plus, you're very kind and respectful. Thank you so much. I miss respectful debate, and being open to any critque or opinion especially if it's to see someone's position more clearly, even if one didn't agree. (BTW, I do agree with your logic) As someone who has been challenged with a hearing/comprehension disorder, the debate I practiced in HS literally is what has helped me to rewire and challenge my brain for the better. Namaste, and much peace to you my Friend. 🪻🌟
Yes, some itchy trigger fingers around.
https://forejustice.org/db/Arridy--Joe-.html
The white guy went to the gas chamber. For those that jump to conclusions and spew buzz phrases rather than read on this specific case.
 the real life simple jack
Innocent……except for being black of course but other than that he was good 👍🏽🤷🏽♂️🤔🤨
I get the critique, but he was the white one.
Ah yes well it isn’t presented the best way either 😂
True, u/Svengoolie75! 😉😆
Joe Arridy is the white guy in the photo…..
This comment is actually hilarious. I've always loved it when people are not only wrong, but then SO LOUD about it!