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Two More Men Exonerated in Texas After Serving 30 Years -By Mark Strassmann| CBS

02 May

It is an all-too-familiar story in this country: in Dallas, two men who spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for a rape they didn’t commit were formally exonerated Monday after DNA testing implicated two other men.

With James Curtis Williams and Raymond Jackson, Dallas County has now cleared 32 convicts in the past decade.

CBS News correspondent Mark Strassman reports this is such a common occurrence, the wrongly convicted in Texas have joined forces to help one another.

Excerpt, read: Exonerated Ex-Convicts Ban Together in Texas -By Mark Strassmann| CBS

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Posted by swilliamsjd on May 2, 2012 in Amnesty International, Capital punishment, Current events, Law, News, NGOs, Race, Wrongful Convictions

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