[News] Alabama Governor Spares Toforest Johnson From Execution Over Doubts About the Evidence That Condemned Him
Alabama's governor has taken execution off the table for a man convicted largely on the word of a witness later paid a reward, but she did not call him innocent, the attorney general says the jury and the courts got it right, and Johnson will die in prison unless a judge grants him a new trial or a nearly closed pardon route opens.
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