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Tue 05 May 2009On the trail of the innocent
Since the Innocence Project was set up in the US, DNA evidence has resulted in the release of hundreds of wrongfully convicted prisoners, many of them on death row. Now the scheme is coming to Ireland
A FORMER death row inmate in Tennessee was acquitted of murder earlier this month – 22 years after he was sentenced to die and three years after the US Supreme Court raised repeated questions about his conviction.
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