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Two Louisiana Death Row Prisoners Freed
Loaded on May 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2001, page 15
Three days after Christmas, 2000, Michael Ray Graham walked off death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. He was wearing a prison issue denim jacket and carried all of his worldly possessions in two manila envelopes tucked under one arm.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Wrongful Conviction,
Death Penalty,
Death Row.
Location:
Louisiana.
After 14 years on death row and with ...
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