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Finally Free

One Death Row inmate’s uphill battle

By Dave Lindorff

Joseph Amrine, a black Missouri Death Row prisoner freed July 28 by the state’s Supreme Court, says that for his first 13 years awaiting execution, he maintained his spirits, confident his innocence of the murder of a fellow prison inmate would be vindicated. “The low point for me came back in 1998,” he says, “when the U.S. Supreme Court refused… return to article

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