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Dr. Larry Golden and the Fight for Justice | Springfield News
Dr. Larry Golden ignited a movement to exonerate the wrongfully convicted, founding the Downstate Innocence Project in 2001 after being moved by exonerees’ stories. His work at Sangamon State University and later with the project combined real-world justice with education, training students to tackle actual wrongful conviction cases. As DNA tech surged in the 90s, the need for such organizations became urgent. Their efforts directly led to Illinois abolishing the death penalty in 2011, a victory rooted in human dignity and the relentless fight for freedom. In 2011, the project secured a…
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