...didn't commit. Largely illiterate and with an IQ of 69, Washington confessed to the 1982 rape and slaying of Rebecca Lynn Williams even though no fingerprints or biological evidence tied him to the crime. However, DNA tests showed he was wrongly...

...order to make a good judgment,'' Gilmore said. Washington was sent to death row for the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Lynn Williams, 19. In 1994, then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, commuted Washington's sentence to life in prison...