Charles Ray Finch

Charles Ray Finch is a former death-row prisoner associated with a documented U.S. capital-case exoneration. The Death Penalty Information Center records a 1976 capital conviction in North Carolina and an exoneration in 2019, a span of 43 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, Mistaken Witness Identification, Perjury or False Accusation, False or Misleading Forensic Evidence. These labels are useful for comparison across cases because one wrongful conviction can involve several reinforcing failures at once.

The 43-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.