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Recanted Witness Testimony May Change Death Sentence for Alabama Prisoner
Margaret Summers - July, 27 2010
Mistaken identity and faulty eyewitness accounts are among the many flaws and frequent occurrences in death penalty trials. Such may be the case for Alabama death row prisoner William John Ziegler, who is appealing his death sentence for the murder of Russell Allen Baker in February 2000. An eyewitness who testified against Ziegler at trial recently stepped forward and said of Ziegler to authorities, "It wasn't him."
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| Sep 8, 10 · Poor Legal Representation One of Several Problems in KY Death Row Prisoner Wilson's Case
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| Sep 6, 10 · NH Law Provides Compensation to Murder Victims' Survivors Regardless of Date of Crime
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| Sep 6, 10 · Could Illinois Be The Next State to Repeal Capital Punishment?
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| Sep 6, 10 · Kentucky's Death Penalty Must End
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| Sep 6, 10 · Illinois Coalition Pushes for Death Penalty Repeal
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| Sep 4, 10 · Ohio Innocence Project Assisted State's Public Defenders' Office in Keith Case
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