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    Unrequited Innocence

    Walter Ogrod

    Walter Ogrod walks off death row

    By John Seasly | June 5, 2020

    In an emotional hearing Friday, a Philadelphia judge vacated Ogrod’s death sentence and convictions for the 1996 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn. He walked free after 28 years behind bars.

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    Unrequited Innocence

    Mississippi high court orders retrial for death row inmate convicted on debunked bite-mark evidence

    By John Seasly | August 28, 2020

    Eddie Lee Howard has spent 26 years on death row based largely on now-discredited forensic evidence. Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court vacated his conviction and ordered a retrial.

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    Philadelphia DA: Death row inmate Walter Ogrod “likely innocent”

    By John Seasly | March 4, 2020

    Larry Krasner’s office has asked the court to clear the conviction and sentence of Ogrod, who has served nearly three decades in prison for the murder of a 4-year-old girl.

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    Kimber Edwards: Accused of involvement by actual killer, who later recanted

    By John Seasly | December 9, 2019

    After police in University City, Missouri, found Kimberly Cantrell shot to death in August, 2000, suspicion quickly fell on her ex-husband, Kimber Edwards, who had been charged with failing to make child support payments.

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    Kevin Cooper: Nearly a dozen judges find case suspicious

    By John Seasly | December 9, 2019

    In a wealthy neighborhood of ranches thirty miles east of Los Angeles, a home was broken into in the early morning hours on a June night in 1983 and three members of the family, along with a family friend, were brutally killed.

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    Robert M. Kubat

    Robert M. Kubat: Key evidence of innocence withheld at trial

    By John Seasly | December 3, 2019

    In June, 1980, a Lake County, Illinois jury sentenced a truck driver named Robert M. Kubat, who had been in and out of prison for years, to death after convicting him of the murder of Lydia C. Hyde, 63. 

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