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Wrongfully convicted inmate dies two weeks after release (FILE) (Source: Gray News, file) By Associated Press | May 18, 2021 at 2:11 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 7:38 PM RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 1979 rape has died just two weeks after he was granted a compassionate release on an unrelated conviction. Calvin Wayne Cunningham was released from prison for the rape conviction in 1988 and exonerated in 2011 as part of ...

Family asks for compassion release for Calvin Wayne Cunningham A man whose life spiraled out of control after he was wrongfully convicted of a 1979 rape in Newport News is said to be dying behind bars from cancer. Jon Sheldon, a lawyer for Calvin Wayne Cunningham, an inmate at the Lunenburg Correctional Center, said Friday that, "Calvin got his diagnosis yesterday: stage four liver and pancreatic cancer." "He is in tremendous pain and by his condition it appears that he has a very short time," ...