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Few Oklahoma Exonerees Paid for Their Wrongful Incarceration
Loaded on Oct. 25, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
Despite Oklahoma having a wrongful-conviction compensation statute on the books since 2003, few exonerees in that state have received payment.
One example of the battles exonerees face is the case of Greg Wilhoit, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of his wife. Her body was …
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