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He Spent 23 Years On Death Row For A Murder He Didn’t Commit. His Conviction Was Just Overturned.

Ashe Schow
He Spent 23 Years On Death Row For A Murder He Didn’t Commit. His Conviction Was Just Overturned.
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Walter Ogrod was one of those death row inmates who wasn’t just convicted of murder but convicted of the murder of a 4-year-old girl.

On Friday, however, Ogrod walked out of prison an innocent man, his conviction overturned. Judge Shelley Robins New vacated Ogrod’s conviction and his sentence after hearing “clear and convincing” evidence that the Pennsylvania man did not kill the little girl back in 1988.

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