Kennedy Brewer
Posted By The Editors | February 16th, 2010 | Category: Exoneree of the Week | Comments Off
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Kennedy Brewer was sentenced to death in Mississippi in 1995 for a child murder he didn’t commit. DNA testing in 2001 indicated that he could not have committed the crime and led to his conviction being overturned. He remained in jail for seven more years, however, before an Innocence Project investigation led to the real perpetrator. He was freed two years ago this week.
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