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The Rat Trap

Death row exonerations expose failings of the ‘snitch system’

By Christopher Moraff

Levon Jones is supposed to be dead. If the state of North Carolina had its way, Jones, 49, would have been strapped to a gurney years ago, hooked to an IV and pumped full of a lethal, three-drug cocktail until he asphyxiated. Instead, on May 2, he walked out of prison a free man after spending 13 years on death row,… return to article

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