Wrongfully convicted man to be freed
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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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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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The state of Maryland has paid $200,000 to the parents of a slain 9-year-old boy to settle their claim that the killer, a convicted sex offender, was wrongly freed from prison five days before the murder. But the boy's mother may seek more, her attorney said.
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If it weren't for DNA testing, Willie "Pete" Williams would still be rotting away in a Georgia prison. Instead, he was released after serving nearly 22 years for a rape he didn't commit. The Innocence Project works to free others who are wrongfully jailed in American prisons.
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A man who has been on Death Row for 20 years for the murder of a two-year-old girl is to be freed after a plea bargain.
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A man who served nearly 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit has been released from prison based on new testing of DNA evidence.
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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago admits his guilt after a legal change allows him to be retried.
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A man who almost killed a shop manager was freed from jail early against probation advice, the BBC finds.
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A Georgia man, who served 17 years in  prison for rape and robbery, was freed on Tuesday, one week  after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongly convicted of the  crime.
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A man wrongly jailed for 18 years in a child rape case was released from prison Tuesday after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime.
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A court has ruled that a former member of the left-wing extremist Red Army Faction which terrorised Germany in the 1970s will be released from jail.
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The justice department is set to overturn the convictions of three men after it emerged mistakes were made in the case.
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An American man acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend was released Friday afternoon, his family told CNN.
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A man is released from prison in Sri Lanka after being held on remand for 50 years without conviction.
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A man who spent 21 years behind bars for the rape of a police officer's wife was freed Friday after being cleared by DNA testing.
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A British man who came close to being executed by the state of Ohio for killing a 2-year-old girl was set free under a plea deal on Monday, with plans to return to his home in Scotland, authorities said.
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A man who was freed after serving 22 years for a rape he didn't commit walked out of jail with a few possessions in a plastic bag, and nothing else.