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He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway. (www.propublica.org)

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Reporting Highlights

Discredited Testimony: Nine prisoners who were convicted in part on inaccurate evidence presented by dentist Michael West and pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne have since been exonerated.

Junk Science: Jimmie Chris Duncan was sentenced to death row for killing his girlfriend’s toddler after allegedly manufactured bite mark evidence connected him to the crime.

Suppressed Evidence: Prosecutors did not reveal that a critical witness had written them a letter from jail in which he appeared to offer his assistance in exchange for leniency.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

White supremacist governor Mike Parson's executed Marcelus Williams despite him having evidence of his innocence. At some point the death penalty needs to just be looked at as an extension of lynchings.