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In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) Weekend Long-Read: The Untouchables: America’s Misbehaving Prosecutors, And The System That Protects Them In-depth article from August 2013 via The Huffington Post: huff.to/1mapV24 “The wrongly convicted often show remarkable grace and humility. Its inspiring to see, if a little difficult to understand; even after years or decades in prison, exonerees are typically marked by an absence of bitterness. Not Thompson, but you can hardly blame him. Even among outrageous false conviction stories, his tale is particularly brutal. He was wrongly convicted not once, but twice -- separately -- for a carjacking and a murder. He spent 18 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, 14 of them on death row. His death warrant was signed eight times. When his attorneys finally found the evidence that cleared him -- evidence his prosecutors had known about for years -- he was weeks away from execution.” #HaltAllExecutions
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:00:05 +0000

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