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Texas Could See First-Ever Posthumous Exoneration

DNA evidence vindicates dead convict

By Drew Nelles,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 1, 2009 2:09 PM CST

(Newser) – A hearing this week could result in Texas’ first-ever posthumous exoneration based on DNA evidence, the AP reports. Tim Cole, who died of a heart attack in prison in 1999, was convicted in the 1985 rape of a Texas Tech student. But an imprisoned rapist’...   Read full story »

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