... IQ of a 10-year-old child. What's more, when asked the details of the incident, Washington was silent. Despite all of this, Washington's appeals failed in the courts. By 1993, Washington's attorneys drafted an appeal for a pardon and sent it to Virginia's Governor Douglas Wilder. But the governor wanted DNA tests done before making a decision, and although the new test ... accept Wilder's clemency offer. He was offering Washington of life in prison, rather than execution. It was later concluded that the test concluded that Washington was "eliminated" as a possible donor of the genetic ev...

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