Death-Row Inmate Freed After 17 Years
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With little more than the standard &#36;100 in his pocket, Ernest Willis walked out of prison a free man Wednesday after 17 years on death row for a crime that may have never even occurred.
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Jack Kevorkian had few words but a broad smile as he walked out of prison Friday, ending eight years behind bars for helping end the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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A Scotsman who came within an hour of being executed in Ohio returned to Edinburgh on Wednesday after his release from more than 20 years on death row.
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Naseem Hamed is released from jail 16 weeks into a 15-month sentence for dangerous driving.
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One of four men jailed for the controversial killing of Garda Jerry McCabe is released from prison in County Roscommon.
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A Briton who spent 18 years in jail in Pakistan has told of the moment he was sentenced to death.Comment
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A judge agreed Thursday to release a man serving a 20-year sentence for a 1992 rape that DNA tests showed he didn't commit.
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MADISON, Wis., Feb. 6 -- A former child-care provider sent to prison more than a decade ago in the fatal shaking of a baby was freed Wednesday, six days after an appeals court ruled that the latest research into shaken baby syndrome might prove her innocence.
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A confessed serial killer due to be  paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of  murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman  25 years ago.
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A man who spent 18 years in prison on a rape charge walked out of court Tuesday a free man, exonerated by DNA evidence.
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.
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A man who has been on death row for 20 years for the murder of a toddler is to be freed after a plea bargain.
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A man who has spent 19 years behind bars for rape and murder was cleared by new DNA testing and will be released from prison, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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A man who escaped from a New Jersey prison 28 years ago was arrested Wednesday at his Philadelphia home, making one last bid to conceal his identity and remain a free man.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.
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Martin Tankleff walked out of court a free man for the first time in the 17 years since he was convicted of murdering his parents. But his next step was less clear.