Wrongfully convicted inmate dies two weeks after release
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...