Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in New Jersey in the 1960s and later exonerated, has died from prostate cancer. The Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted confirmed the former boxer's death Sunday on its website. He was 76. Also read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 (Photos) Denzel Washington in “The Hurricane” (Universal Home Video) Carter was the subject of the 1999 film “The Hurricane,” starring Denzel Washington. The actor won a Golden Globe, an NAACP Image Award and received an Academy Award nomination for his performance. Also read: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Theater Review: Denzel Washington.
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