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    The Long Wait

    Aging prisoners left to arbitrary process to win release

    By Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang | October 2, 2017

    A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process is wracked by subjectivity, and that problem is not confined to Illinois.

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    Unrequited Innocence

    One has already been executed. Others remain on death row. Some remain locked up but are no longer on death row. And some were released from prison, but still have convictions on their record.

    They all have one thing in common: None of them has been declared innocent, no matter how strongly the evidence points in that direction.

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    Why do defendants plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit? A national team of journalists investigates.
    Injustice Watch is partnering with other news organizations to examine why innocent people plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. If this has happened to you before, help us investigate by filling out our form.

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    Larry Swearingen: Executed despite defense contention “provably innocent”

    This story is the first in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence.

    Rodney Reed: Slated to die next month, though experts call prosecution theory “impossible”

    This story is the second in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence.

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