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Albert Burrell (1955-2025)
State: Louisiana Convicted: 1987 Exonerated: 2001 Race: Caucasian DNA used in exoneration? No Reasons for wrongful conviction: False accusation Prosecutorial misconduct Albert's Wrongful Conviction After spending 13 years on death row, Albert Burrell was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on January 3, 2001, shortly after the Louisiana Attorney General dismissed charges against him and his co-defendant, Michael Graham. They had been sentenced to de


On the Wall at National Geographic's DC Office
Martin Schoeller, a dear friend and ally to death row exonerees (and, by the way, also the top celebrity portrait photographer in the...
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