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Exonerated Inmates To Expose Death Penalty Injustices
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published December 1, 2005Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon held a rope in his hands preparing to strangle himself in his Florida prison cell, but something held him back. He lay down and in his sleep he dreamed that he was swimming again as he loved to do as a boy in the tranquil aqua waters of the Caribbean. “The sun […]
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Poor Defense Lands Innocent Man On Death Row
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published December 1, 2005Condemned to death based on highly questionable and circumstantial evidence, Ray Krone, director of communications and training for Witness to Innocence, is the 100th person to be exonerated from Death Row. In 2002 he was released after 10 years in prison, celebrating with a seafood dinner and a milkshake. He was actually lucky as, unlike […]