Brian Keith Baldwin (July 16, 1958 – June 18, 1999) was an African-American man from Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America, who was executed in 1999 in Alabama. Many believe that he was wrongfully convicted and executed for the 1977 murder of a young white woman in Monroe County of that state. The only evidence against Baldwin in the murder was his own confession. He retracted it, saying that it was coerced by beatings and torture by the local police in Wilcox County, Alabama, where he was arrested. A 1985 letter by his co-defendant Edward Dean Horsley surfaced in 1996, after Horsley was executed for first-degree murder. He wrote that he had acted alone in the rape and murder of Naomi Rolon, and that Baldwin had not known of her death.