The Daily Populous Monday April 29th, 2024 evening edition
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SomeGuyAndASquirrel on April 29th, 2024 at 11:36 UTC »

If I remember correctly from what I’ve learned about him is that the warden, Roy Best, gave him the trains, he was beloved by inmates and guards, the warden was said to have cared after him like he was his own son. He didn’t even understand he was being executed, asking that the remainder of his his bowl of ice cream(his last meal) be put in the fridge for when he gets back. He smiled as he entered the gas chamber and Best reportedly weeped during his execution, and pleaded with the governor to commute his sentence. He was Pardoned on January 7th, 2011, 72 years after he was wrongly executed.

Tmbaladdin on April 29th, 2024 at 12:23 UTC »

He was posthumously pardoned… he was mentally disabled and gave a false confession after being tricked by the police… his story is absolutely heartbreaking.

gentlybeepingheart on April 29th, 2024 at 12:36 UTC »

It feels like he was executed because the cops didn’t want to acknowledge that they had arrested the wrong man at first, and just stuck to it.

He was arrested for the rape of two girls and the murder of one. The police basically saw a man walking and tricked him into confessing after he told them he had been in the town where the crime was committed. They called the police to tell them that they had arrested Joe, and they said they had already arrested a man named Frank Aguilar.

Aguilar confessed and said that he had committed the crime alone and had never met Arridy. The survivor of Aguilar’s attack identified Aguilar and said that he had done it alone and she had never seen Arridy. The police later forced Aguilar to confess that Arridy had been with him.