MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
IN POTENTIALLY CAPITAL CASES (1987)
by Hugo Adam Bedau and Michael L. Radelet

Excerpt from Appendix A: Catalogue of Defendants

SCHUYLER, JOHN EDWARD (white). 1907. New Jersey. Schuyler was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The conviction was based wholly on circumstantial evidence, but was affirmed on appeal.1 In 1914, Schuyler was pardoned and released after the real murderer confessed. “Had it not been for the persistent efforts of ex-Governor Stokes and of the New York banker, Mr. C. Ledyard Blair, . . . the death chamber would have had him as its victim.”2

Footnotes

1. State v. Schuyler, 75 N.J.L. 487, 68 A. 56 (1907).
 
2. Editorial Notes, 38 N.J.L.J. 1, 1-2 (1915); see also N.Y. Times, Dec. 24, 1914, at 16, col. 2.