Alabama invents new arguments to explain away DNA, presses ahead with death sentence

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Christopher Barbour has spent more than thirty years on Alabama Death Row for the brutal slaying and rape of Thelma Roberts, a Montgomery woman, in 1992. A judge says that new DNA evidence points to someone else, judge says (Photo Illustration/Al.com)

Maybe he was confused. Or scared. But the confession had to be true.

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