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Man Convicted Of Arson Released After 40 Years, Still Maintains Innocence

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 04.03.2013 | Crime

TUCSON, Ariz. — A man who was locked up more than 40 years for a 1970 Arizona hotel fire that killed 29 people walked out of prison a free man T...

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HUGE Verdict Against Broward Cops

Sun Sentinel | Paula Mcmahon | Posted 03.27.2013 | Miami

The 9,389 days Anthony Caravella wrongfully spent in prison still haunt him, but he was relieved Tuesday that two former police officers who put him a...

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Curious Details In Caravella Case

Sun Sentinel | Paula Mcmahon | Posted 04.29.2013 | Miami

When Miramar detectives interrogated Anthony Caravella about the 1983 murder of a local woman, the then-15-year-old eventually confessed to the crime....

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Detectives Questioned Over 1983 Rape, Murder Case

Sun Sentinel | Paula Mcmahon | Posted 04.28.2013 | Miami

The 1983 murder of a Broward County woman was so vicious -- she was raped, stabbed maybe 40 times, hit over the head with a chair and strangled with w...

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Man Freed By DNA After 26 Years In Prison Sues Police Officers

Sun Sentinel | Paula Mcmahon | Posted 04.21.2013 | Miami

A man who spent 25 years and 240 days in prison for rape and murder -- until DNA testing set him free in 2009 -- now wants the former police officers ...

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Man Wrongfully Convicted In 1990 Slaying Freed From Prison

AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 03.10.2013 | Crime

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a man's murder conviction and life sentence in the 1990 slaying of a rura...

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Exonerated of Murder, Chicagoan's First Vote for President

David Protess | Posted 01.07.2013 | Chicago

The ring tone on his cell phone blared the '60s hit, "Hold On, I'm Comin'." Recognizing his girlfriend's number, Eric Caine anxiously took the call. "It's OK," Tina reassured him. "You're on the voter rolls."

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'Snapped': Did A Woman Conspire With Her Lover To Kill Her Husband?

Posted 09.17.2012 | TV

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Jessica Hill admitted to having an affair with her husband Shane's best friend, Daniel Blair. But is that all she did? Her story unfolded on "Snapped,...

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If You Take Away The Death Penalty, There's Justice All Around

Alec Baldwin | Posted 11.26.2011 | Crime

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We don't need the death penalty. Life in prison without parole is the worst possible sentence. Have you ever visited a prison and spoken to inmates about what goes on there? How they feel? I have. Prison itself is the death penalty. In the slowest of slow motion.

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