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| Subject: 'Justice' for electrocuted kin, 94 years later Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:16 am | |
| Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory.
Nearly 100 years had passed since his great-uncles, Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin, were wrongfully executed in South Carolina. On Wednesday, a board voted 7-0 to pardon both men, clearing their names in the 1913 killing of a veteran of the Confederate Army.
It marks the first time in history that South Carolina has issued a posthumous pardon in a capital murder case.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/15/south.carolina.pardon/ |
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