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False Witness

No evidence, but a Missouri inmate is facing execution.

By Dave Lindorff

One of the arguments raised against the death penalty is that, when prosecutors succeed in executing a person convicted of murder, they lose any interest in finding out later that they might be wrong. Yet if they are wrong, the actual killer remains at large. That may be exactly what is about to happen in the case of Joseph Amrine, a… return to article

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