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A man who was in prison for almost three decades is going home after a judge vacated a first-degree murder conviction as part ...
Benjamin Cole spent decades in prison for a 1998 Greensboro murder he says he didn’t commit. His family and lawyers on the ...
For the first time in nearly 30 years, a Triad man is out of jail and back home with his family. Benjamin Cole, 47, embraced ...
Benjamin Cole, who has spent more time in prison than in the outside world, walked out of a Guilford County courtroom a free ...
A jury convicted Cole in 1999 of killing Calvin Jenkins, who was shot at an apartment off East Wendover Avenue in Greensboro.
His attorneys say a 871-page investigative file compiled by Greensboro police was not turned over to the defense during the ...
Charlene Diaz kisses her son Benjamin Cole after he was released from custody inside a Guilford County Courthouse courtroom in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Benjamin Cole walked free ...
A man who was in prison for almost three decades went home Wednesday after a judge vacated a first-degree murder conviction as part of a plea deal, according to a Duke ...
Benjamin Cole and his mother Charlene Diaz walk away from the Guilford County Courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, ...
Oklahoma has executed by lethal injection Benjamin Cole, who was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of his 9-month-old daughter Brianna Victoria Cole, over the objections of defense attorneys ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Guilford County judge heard hours of testimony Thursday in the case of Benjamin Cole, who was convicted in 1999 of killing a man during a robbery. Now, more than two decades ...
Oklahoma executed inmate Benjamin Cole on Thursday morning despite claims from his attorneys that he had been severely mentally ill. Cole was pronounced dead at 10:22 a.m. at Oklahoma's state ...