This list contains names of people who were found guilty of

capital crime Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

s and placed on

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but later found to be

wrongly convicted A miscarriage of justice occurs when a grossly unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. Miscarriages are also known as wrongful convictions. Inno ...

. Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. The state listed is that in which the conviction occurred, the year is that of release and the case is that which overturned the conviction. This list does not include: # Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. # Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. # People who were threatened with death and never jailed. # People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of

stoning Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. The Torah and Ta ...

List by country

Japan

1983 *

Sakae Menda was a Japanese who was wrongfully convicted of a Murder, double-murder and Capital punishment in Japan, sentenced to death in 1949, but was later exonerated by retrial in 1983. This was the first time anyone was ever released from death row by re ...

was forced to confess to the murders of a Buddhist priest and his wife in 1948 and was convicted on two counts of

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...

and

robbery Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the perso ...

in 1949. In a 1983

retrial A new trial or retrial is a recurrence of a court case. A new trial may potentially be ordered for some or all of the matters at issue in the original trial. Depending upon the rules of the jurisdiction and the decision of the court that ordered ...

, he was found not guilty of all charges. He died in 2020. 1989 * Masao Akahori was convicted in 1954 at the age of 24 of raping and murdering a schoolgirl. In 1989, he became the fourth death row inmate in Japan to be released.

Taiwan

2012 * Su Chien-ho (蘇建和), Liu Bing-lang (劉秉郎) and Chuang Lin-hsun (莊林勳) were sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Wu Ming-han and his wife Yeh Ying-lan in Xizhi District, Taipei County, Taiwan. They were acquitted in 2012. 2016 * Cheng Hsing-tse (鄭性澤) was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of a police officer in Fengyuan, Taichung, Taiwan. He was acquitted in May 2016.

United Kingdom

1966 *

Timothy Evans Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welshman who was wrongly accused of murdering his wife (Beryl) and infant daughter (Geraldine) at their residence in Notting Hill, London. In January 1950, Evans was tried, and was c ...

, convicted of the murder of his infant daughter Geraldine in 1950, was hanged on March 9, 1950, and posthumously pardoned in 1966. 1968 *

Mahmood Hussein Mattan Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1923 – 3 September 1952) was a British Somali former merchant seaman who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Lily Volpert on 6 March 1952. The murder took place in the Docklands area of Cardiff, Wales, and Mat ...

, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. *

Derek Bentley Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman during a burglary attempt. Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the murde ...

, convicted 1952, executed 1953, pardoned 1993, conviction quashed 1998. 1969 * Death penalty for murder abolished. 1973 * Despite abolition in the rest of the UK, separate legal systems meant that death sentences stood in

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(and the

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and

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, which are outside the UK) but with no likelihood of execution. A

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member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK.

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human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member.

United States

As of October 2, 2021, the Innocence Database maintained by the

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shows 186 exonerations of prisoners on death row in the United States since 1973. 1820s 1820 * Jesse Boorn, Vermont. Convicted 1819. * Stephen Boorn, Vermont. Convicted 1819. 1850s 1851 * Thomas Berdue, California. Convicted 1851. 1880s 1889 * William Woods, Arkansas. Convicted 1888. 1890s 1895 * Michael Sabol, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1891. 1897 * George Rusnak, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1891. * William Jackson Marion, Nebraska. Convicted 1887. 1898 * Will Purvis, Mississippi. Convicted 1893. 1900s 1901 * Michael J. Synon, Illinois. Convicted 1900. 1902 * Henry Miller, Arkansas. Convicted 1888. 1905 * Samuel Greason, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1901. 1910s 1911 * David Sherman, Tennessee. Convicted 1907. * Andrew Toth, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1891. * Stearns Kendall Abbott, Massachusetts. Convicted 1880. 1913 * J.B. Brown, Florida. Convicted 1901. 1915 * John McElwrath, Tennessee. Convicted 1903. 1917 * Herman Zajicek, Illinois. Convicted 1907. 1918 * Charles Stielow, New York. Convicted 1915. 1920s 1920 * Frank Jordano, Louisiana. Convicted 1919. * John Pender, Oregon. Convicted 1913. 1928 * George Williams, North Carolina. Convicted 1922. * Fred Dove, North Carolina. Convicted 1922. * Frank Dove, North Carolina. Convicted 1922. 1929 * Joseph Weaver, Ohio. Convicted 1927. 1930s 1930 * Gangi Cero, Massachusetts. Convicted 1927. * Richard Phillips, Virginia. Convicted 1900. 1931 * William Harper, Virginia. Convicted 1931. 1933 * Harry Cashin, New York. Convicted 1931. * Edward Larkman, New York. Convicted 1926. 1936 * Gus Langley, North Carolina. Convicted 1932. 1937 * Eugene Williams, Alabama. Convicted 1931. * Willie Roberson, Alabama. Convicted 1931. * Ozie Powell, Alabama. Convicted 1931. * Olen Montgomery, Alabama. Convicted 1931. 1938 * Ayliff Draper, Arkansas. Convicted 1935. * Tom Jones, Kentucky. Convicted 1935. 1939 * Thomas J. Mooney, California. Convicted 1917. 1940s 1940 * George Bilger, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1938. 1942 * Walter Woodward, Florida. Convicted 1933. * Jack Williamson, Florida. Convicted 1933. * Charlie Davis, Florida. Convicted 1933. 1943 * William Wellmon, North Carolina. Convicted 1942. 1945 * Charles Bernstein, DC. Convicted 1933. 1946 * Sidney Rudish, New York. Convicted 1943. * Morris Malinski, New York. Convicted 1943. 1948 * Lemuel Parrott, North Carolina. Convicted 1947. 1949 * Clyde Beale, West Virginia. Convicted 1926. 1950s 1951 * Horace Wilson, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. * James Thorpe, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. * John McKenzie, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. * McKinley Forrest, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. 1952 * Silas Rogers, Virginia. Convicted 1943. 1953 * George Lettrich, Illinois. Convicted 1951. 1956 * Camilo Leyra, New York. Convicted 1950. 1957 * L.D. Harris, South Carolina. Convicted 1947. * Aaron Turner, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1946. 1958 * Harry Dale Bundy, Ohio. Convicted 1957. * James Fulton Foster, Georgia. Convicted 1956. 1960s 1962 * Robert Lee Kidd, California. Convicted 1960. * Isidore Zimmerman, New York. Convicted 1938. 1965 * Theodore Jordan, Oregon. Convicted 1932. 1966 * Robert Ballard Bailey, West Virginia. Convicted 1950. 1967 * James Giles, Maryland. Convicted 1961. * John Giles, Maryland. Convicted 1961. 1968 * Joseph Johnson, Maryland. Convicted 1962. 1969 * Paul Kern Imbler, California. Convicted 1961.

1970s

1971 * Lloyd Eldon Miller, Illinois. Convicted 1956. 1973 * Dave Roby Keaton, Florida. Convicted 1971. 1974 * Anthony Carey, North Carolina. Convicted 1973. 1975 * Freddie Pitts and Wilbur Lee, Florida. Convicted 1963 * Clarence Smith, Jr., New Mexico. Convicted 1974. * Ronald Keine, New Mexico. Convicted 1974. * Richard Greer, New Mexico. Convicted 1974. * Thomas Gladish, New Mexico. Convicted 1974. * Christopher Spicer, North Carolina. Convicted 1973. * James Creamer, Georgia. Convicted 1973. 1976 * Clarence Norris, Alabama. Convicted 1931. 1977 *

Delbert Tibbs Delbert Lee Tibbs (June 19, 1939 – November 23, 2013) was an American man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and rape in 1974 in Florida and sentenced to death. Later exonerated, Tibbs became a writer and anti-death penalty activist. Early ...

, Florida. Convicted in 1974. 1978 * Earl Patrick Charles, Georgia. Convicted 1975. * Gary Radi, Montana. Convicted 1975. 1979 * Gary Beeman, Ohio. Convicted 1976.

1980s

1980 * Jerry Banks, Georgia. Convicted 1975. * Larry Hicks, Indiana. Convicted 1978. 1981 * Michael Linder, South Carolina. Convicted 1979. * Johnny Ross, Louisiana. Convicted 1975. 1982 * Lawyer Johnson, Massachusetts. Convicted 1972. 1986 * Anthony Silah Brown, Florida. Convicted 1983. * Neil Ferber, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1981. * Clifford Henry Bowen, Oklahoma. Convicted 1981. 1987 * Joseph Green Brown. Florida. Convicted 1974. He was re-arrested in 2012 and charged with the murder of his wife in North Carolina, for which he was convicted on September 12, 2013. * Perry Cobb and Darby J. Tillis. Illinois. Convicted 1979. The primary witness in the case, Phyllis Santini, was determined to be an accomplice of the actual killer by the

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. The Judge in the case, Thomas J. Maloney, was later convicted of accepting bribes. * Juan Ramos, Florida. Convicted 1983. Acquitted on retrial in April 1987. * Robert Wallace, Georgia. Convicted 1980. * Anthony Ray Peek, Florida. Convicted 1978. 1988 * Larry Troy and Willie Brown, Florida. Convicted 1983. 1989 *

Randall Dale Adams Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. His conviction was overturned in 1989. Throu ...

, Texas. Convicted 1977. He was exonerated as a result of information uncovered by film-maker Errol Morris and presented in an acclaimed 1988 documentary, ''The Thin Blue Line''. Adams was released and all charges were dropped in December 1988. * James Joseph Richardson, Florida. Convicted 1968.

1990s

1990 *

Clarence Brandley Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018) was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe ...

, Texas. Convicted 1981. * Dale Johnston, Ohio. Convicted 1984. 1991 * Gary Nelson, Georgia. Convicted 1980. * Charles Smith, Indiana. Convicted 1983. 1992 *

Jay C. Smith Jay C. Smith (June 5, 1928 – May 12, 2009) was an American high school principal in the Pennsylvania who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1979 murder of one of his school's teachers, Susan Reinert, and her two children, ...

, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1986. 1993 *

Walter McMillian Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

, Alabama. Convicted 1988. * Gregory Wilhoit, Oklahoma. Convicted 1987. Along with Ron Williamson, Wilhoit later became the subject of

John Grisham John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American novelist, lawyer and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his popular legal thrillers. According to the Am ...

's 2006 non-fiction book '' The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town''. Grisham, John (2006). ''The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town''. Doubleday Books *

Kirk Bloodsworth Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree mur ...

, Maryland. Convicted 1985. * Muneer Deeb, Texas. Convicted 1985. * Larry Hudson, Louisiana. Convicted 1967. * Federico Macias, Texas. Convicted 1984. * James Albert Robison, Arizona. Convicted 1977. 1994 * Andrew Golden, Florida. Convicted 1991. 1995 * Robert Charles Cruz, Arizona. Convicted 1981. Cruz disappeared in 1997 and his remains were found in 2007. * Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez, Illinois. Convicted 1985. *

Sabrina Butler Sabrina Butler is a Mississippi woman who was eventually exonerated of all wrongdoing after initially being wrongfully convicted as a teenager for the alleged murder and child abuse of her nine-month-old son. Death of baby On April 11, 1989, teen ...

, Mississippi. Convicted 1990. * Adolph Munson, Oklahoma. Convicted 1985. 1996 * Verneal Jimerson and Dennis Williams, Illinois. Convicted 1985. * Gary Gauger, Illinois. Convicted 1993. * Joseph Burrows, Illinois. Convicted 1989. * David Grannis, Arizona. Convicted 1991. * Troy Lee Jones, California. Convicted 1982. * Carl Lawson, Illinois. Convicted 1990. * Roberto Miranda, Nevada. Convicted 1982. 1997 * Ricardo Aldape Guerra, Texas. Convicted 1982. * Benjamin Harris, Washington. Convicted 1984. * Christopher McCrimmon, Arizona. Convicted 1993. * Larry Randal Padgett, Alabama. Convicted 1992. 1998 * Curtis Kyles, Louisiana. Convicted 1984. 1999 *

Shareef Cousin Shareef Cousin (born 1979) is an African-American man from New Orleans who was convicted of the first-degree murder of Michael Gerardi in 1996 and sentenced to death as a juvenile in Louisiana. At age 17, he became the youngest condemned convict ...

, Louisiana. Convicted 1996. *

Anthony Porter Anthony Porter (born 12/14/1954-died 07/05/2021) was a Chicago resident known for having been exonerated in 1999 of the murder in 1982 of two teenagers on the South Side of the city. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1983, and served 17 ye ...

, Illinois. Convicted 1983. *

Ron Williamson Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend ...

, Oklahoma. Convicted 1988. Along with Gregory R. Wilhoit, Williamson later became the inspiration for and subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book ''The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town''. * Ronald Jones, Illinois. Convicted 1989. Released May 17, 1999. * Clarence Richard Dexter, Jr., Missouri. Convicted 1991. * Alfred Rivera, North Carolina. Convicted 1997. * Steven Smith, Illinois. Convicted 1986.

2000s

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, Virginia. Convicted 1984. * Frank Lee Smith, Florida. Convicted 1985. Smith died in prison in January 2000, before being exonerated later that year. * Eric Clemmons, Missouri. Convicted 1987. * Hubert Geralds, Jr., Illinois. Convicted 1997. * Michael Graham, Louisiana. Convicted 1987. * Joseph Green, Florida. Convicted 1993. * Oscar Morris, California. Convicted 1983. * William Nieves, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1994.

=2001

= * Charles Irvin Fain, Idaho. Convicted 1983. * Albert Burrell, Louisiana. Convicted 1987. * Gary Drinkard, Alabama. Convicted 1995. * Louis Greco, Massachusetts. Convicted 1968. Posthumous exoneration. * Peter Limone, Massachusetts. Convicted 1968. * Joaquin Jose Martinez, Florida. Convicted 1997. * Donald Paradis, Idaho. Convicted 1981. * Henry Tameleo, Massachusetts. Convicted 1968. Posthumous exoneration.

=2002

= * Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon, Florida. Convicted 1984.Chachere, Vickie: "Florida Death Row Inmate To Be Released After 17 Years", ''Associated Press'', Jan 3, 2002 * Ray Krone, Arizona. Convicted 1992. * Thomas Kimbell, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1998. * Andre Minnitt, Arizona. Convicted 1993. * Larry Osborne, Kentucky. Convicted 1999.

=2003

= * Nicholas Yarris, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1982. * John Thompson, Louisiana. Convicted 1985. * Joseph Amrine, Missouri. Convicted 1986. * Madison Hobley, Illinois. Convicted 1990. * Rudolph Holton, Florida. Convicted 1986. * Stanley Howard, Illinois. Convicted 1987. * Timothy Howard, Ohio. Convicted 1977. * Gary Lamar James, Ohio. Convicted 1977. * Leroy Orange, Illinois. Convicted 1985. * Aaron Patterson, Illinois. Convicted 1989. * Lemuel Prion, Arizona. Convicted 1999. * Wesley Quick, Alabama. Convicted 1997.

=2004

= *

Alan Gell James Alan Gell (born 1974 in North Carolina) is an American who was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 and capital punishment, sentenced to death in Bertie County, North Carolina, at the age of 22. He served nine years as an inmate ...

, North Carolina. Convicted 1995. * Ernest Willis, Texas. Convicted 1987. * Ryan Matthews, Louisiana. Convicted 1999. * Laurence Adams, Massachusetts. Convicted 1974. * Dan L. Bright, Louisiana. Convicted 1996. * Patrick Croy, California. Convicted 1979. * Gordon Steidl, Illinois. Convicted 1987. 2005 * Derrick Jamison, Ohio. Convicted 1985. * Harold C. Wilson, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1989.

=2007

= * Curtis McCarty, Oklahoma. Convicted 1986. * Jonathon Hoffman, North Carolina. Convicted 1996. * Michael Lee McCormick, Tennessee. Convicted 1987.

=2008

= * Kennedy Brewer, Mississippi. Convicted 1995. * Glen Edward Chapman, North Carolina. Convicted 1995. * Levon "Bo" Jones, North Carolina. Convicted 1993. * Michael Blair, Texas. Convicted 1994.

=2009

= * Nathson Fields, Illinois. Convicted 1986. * Paul House, Tennessee. Convicted 1986. * Daniel Wade Moore, Alabama. Convicted 2002. * Ronald Kitchen, Illinois. Convicted 1988. * Michael Toney, Texas. Convicted 1999. Toney later died in a car accident on October 3, 2009, just one month and a day after his exoneration. * Yancy Douglas, Oklahoma. Convicted 1995. * Paris Powell, Oklahoma. Convicted 1997. * Robert Springsteen, Texas. Convicted 2001.

2010s

=2010

= * Anthony Graves, Texas. Convicted 1994.

=2011

= * Gussie Vann, Tennessee. Convicted 1984.

=2012

= * Damon Thibodeaux, Louisiana. Convicted 1997. * Michael Keenan, Ohio. Convicted 1988. * Seth Penalver, Florida. Convicted 1994. * Joe D'Ambrosio, Ohio. Convicted 1989.

=2013

= * Reginald Griffin, Missouri. Convicted 1983.

=2014

= *

Glenn Ford Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-American actor who often portrayed ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Ford was most prominent during Classical Hollywood cinema, Hollywood's Golden Age as ...

, Louisiana. Convicted 1984. * Carl Dausch, Florida. Convicted 2011. * Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown, North Carolina. Convicted 1984. *

Ricky Jackson, Ronnie Bridgeman, and Wiley Bridgeman Ricky Jackson (born 1957), Ronnie Bridgeman (born 1957) and Wiley Bridgeman (1954-June 27, 2021) are African Americans who were wrongfully convicted of murder as young men in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 and sentenced to death. Their sentences were comm ...

, Ohio. Convicted 1975. *

George Stinney George Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944), was an African American boy, who at the age of 14 was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial, and executed, for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 � ...

Jr., South Carolina. Convicted 1944. Posthumous exoneration.

=2015

= *

Debra Milke Debra Jean Milke (née Sadeik; born March 10, 1964) is a German- American woman who spent over 25 years in prison in the state of Arizona. She was one of three people sentenced to death for the December 2, 1989 shooting death of her four-year-ol ...

, Arizona. Convicted 1990. * Anthony Ray Hinton, Alabama. Convicted 1985. * Willie Manning, Mississippi. Convicted 1996. * Alfred Brown, Texas. Convicted 2005. * Lawrence William Lee, Georgia. Convicted 1987. * Derral Wayne Hodgkins, Florida. Convicted 2013. * William Antunes, Massachusetts. Convicted 1990.

=2017

= * Isaiah McCoy, Delaware. Convicted 2010. * Rodricus Crawford, Louisiana. Convicted 2013. * Ralph Wright, Florida. Convicted 2014. * Rickey Newman, Arkansas. Convicted 2002. * Gabriel Solache, Illinois. Convicted 2000. * Robert Miller, Oklahoma. Convicted 1988.

=2018

= * Vicente Benavides, California. Convicted 1993. * Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin, Florida. Convicted 2006.

=2019

= * Paul Browning, Nevada. Convicted 1986. * Clifford Williams, Florida. Convicted 1976. * Charles Finch, North Carolina. Convicted 1976. * Christopher Williams, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1993. 2020s 2020 * Robert Duboise, Florida. Convicted 1985. *

Curtis Flowers Curtis Giovanni Flowers (born May 29, 1970) is an American man who was tried for murder six times in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal. Flowers was alleged to have ...

, Mississippi. Convicted 1997. * Kareem Johnson, Pennsylvania. Convicted 2007. * Roderick Johnson, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1997. * Walter Ogrod, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1996. 2021 * Sherwood Brown, Mississippi. Convicted 1995. * Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., Mississippi. Convicted 1994. * Barry Williams, California. Convicted 1986.

Canada

* Steven Truscott was convicted of a schoolmate's murder in 1959 and sentenced at age 14 to death by hanging. His sentence was commuted to life in prison four months later, and he was paroled in 1969. His conviction was overturned in 2007 for "miscarriage of justice."

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