John Artis, wrongly convicted with Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, dies at 75

Campaigner against miscarriages of justice was ‘forgotten man’ in case which inspired Bob Dylan song and Denzel Washington movie

John Artis, who was wrongly convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a triple murder made famous in a 1975 song by Bob Dylan and a 1999 film staring Denzel Washington, has died. He was 75.

Artis died on 7 November of a gastric aneurysm at his home in Hampton, Virginia, said Fred Hogan, a longtime friend who worked to help overturn the convictions of Artis and Carter.

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