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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 Virginia’s post-conviction DNA testing program. He was in prison serving time for unrelated convic...

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," said Sheldon. Sheldon filed a petition for an emergency compassionate release for Cunningham with th...