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#162 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

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I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside a decades-long fight for the truth. The story of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown is living proof that false confessions can send innocent people to death row.

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#162 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

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