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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dies at 76
Updated:
April 20, 2014, 3:54 PM ET
Reflecting On Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter
ESPN
boxing analyst Nigel Collins discusses the life and legacy of
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who has died at the age of
76.
TORONTO -- Rubin "Hurricane''
Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an
international symbol of racial injustice, died Sunday at 76.
John Artis, a longtime friend and
caregiver, told The Canadian Press that Carter died in his sleep
Sunday. Carter had been stricken with prostate cancer in Toronto,
the New Jersey native's adopted home.
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"Hurricane" Carter was 27-12-1 with 19 knockouts before
being wrongfully convicted for murder in 1967 and again in 1976
before being freed in 1985.
Carter spent 19 years in prison for
three murders at a tavern in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1966. He was
convicted alongside Artis in 1967 and again in a new trial in
1976.
Carter was freed in November 1985
when his convictions were set aside after years of appeals and
public advocacy. His ordeal and the alleged racial motivations
behind it were publicized in Bob Dylan's 1975 song "Hurricane,''
several books and a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington, who
received an Academy Award nomination for playing the boxer turned
prisoner.
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