Roderick Andre Johnson

Roderick Andre Johnson is a former death-row prisoner associated with a documented U.S. capital-case exoneration. The Death Penalty Information Center records a 1997 capital conviction in Pennsylvania and an exoneration in 2020, a span of 23 years. The recorded exoneration procedure is Charges Dismissed.

Capital conviction and exoneration

DPIC records the final procedure as charges dismissed: after the capital conviction was undone, the prosecution did not obtain another conviction on the original murder charge. DPIC does not mark DNA evidence as a major factor in the exoneration record.

What the database records

DPIC associates the case with the following recurring wrongful-conviction factors: Official Misconduct, Perjury or False Accusation, False Confession. These labels are useful for comparison across cases because one wrongful conviction can involve several reinforcing failures at once.

The 23-year interval between conviction and exoneration is also part of the record. It shows why death-row innocence cases are useful as a connected dataset: timing, procedural route, evidentiary problems and state practices become easier to compare when cases are linked rather than treated as isolated news stories.

Place in the graph

This is a contextual justice-system profile, not a Rogue/criminal profile. It is public and indexable because the exoneration is historically significant, but it is excluded from the criminal People catalogue.

Sources

– Death Penalty Information Center — Innocence Database. – Death Penalty Information Center — Description of Innocence Cases.