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#162 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

#162 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

FromWrongful Conviction


#162 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

FromWrongful Conviction

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Oct 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside a decades-long fight for the truth. The story of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown is living proof that false confessions can send innocent people to death row.

Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.

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This episode includes audio from “Brothers Return Home to Freedom” from The News & Observer. © 2014 McClatchy. All rights reserved. Used under license.

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Released:
Oct 12, 2020
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Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.