People Who Were Incarcerated For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

Prosecutors Said Sally Clark Killed Both Of Her Infant Sons

British woman Sally Clark was convicted of murdering her two infants. Her first son died in 1996 just weeks after he was born. Her second son died in a suspiciously similar way two years later. Shortly after her second son’s death, she was arrested and sent to trial for each death. Clark was convicted in 1999 and given life imprisonment. The sentence was based largely on pediatrician Roy Meadow’s testimony that the odds of two children from a well-to-do family dying of sudden infant death syndrome was 1 in 73 million. In truth, he had mistakenly arrived at this figure.