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Alabama governor commutes sentence of prisoner on death row
Toforest Johnson’s death penalty reduced to life in prison without parole over doubts about his conviction Toforest Johnson, an Alabama death row inmate, will no longer face execution after the state’s Republican governor commuted his sentence amid increasing doubts about his conviction.
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Both outlets center on Governor Kay Ivey commuting Toforest Johnson’s death sentence and frame the move around doubts about the conviction. The Guardian US emphasizes that the penalty was reduced to life without parole and foregrounds “increasing doubts” about the conviction, while Fox News adds that Johnson’s attorneys say the fight for a new trial and full exoneration continues.
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