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July 15, 2014

Missouri Set to Execute Prisoner Despite Claims of Innocence 
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Missouri is set to execute a prisoner despite newly surfaced evidence
that he may be innocent. John Middleton is scheduled to die by lethal
injection just after midnight Wednesday for three murders, but his
lawyers say new evidence may implicate two other men and prove that on
the day of one killing, Middleton was actually 40 miles away in a jail
in Iowa. His lawyers have petitioned a federal appeals court to halt the
execution.

 

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