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So we will talk about who Kevin Strickland is What
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he did allegedly and if he is innocent or guilty,
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Kevin Strickland is an African American man who has been
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in jail for 43 years.
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He has suffered from two heart attacks, which has led
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him to be in a wheelchair.
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He cannot stand longer than three minutes.
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He suffers from low blood pressure.
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He was convicted at the age of 18 and missed
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seeing his daughter grow up.
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So what did he do?
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He was convicted of a triple murder, an eyewitness who
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is named Cynthia Douglas claims that he was one of
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the shooters and identified him as one of the shooters.
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He was convicted by an all white jury and he
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believes his skin color.
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I also believe that his skin color still plays a
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big role in his conviction, the original prosecutor is now
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deceased and never looked into the claims of innocence.
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The current prosecutors stated that it is important to recognize
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when the system has made wrongs and what we did
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in this case was wrong.
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Yeah, moving on if he's innocent or guilty, he claims
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that he didn't do it till this day and the
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The Missouri Supreme Court has denied a petition to free
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him, denied without explanation.
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The Missouri governor had announced 36 pardons but Strickland was
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not mentioned.
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He has already been announced guilty and served 15,000 days
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behind bars and if he if he has announced innocent
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Strickland will be one of the longest inmates but behind
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bars wrongfully.
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It was in the state of Missouri, there are no
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reward or apologies given to the wrongfully accused convictions.
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He, in my opinion, he is innocent, the governor's nor
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anyone wants to look at his files, and he was
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convicted of life imprisonment without parole.