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A string of witnesses admitted giving false testimony at the 1991 trial of a convicted murderer who has spent almost two decades on death row in the United States. The admissions came at a special hearing ordered by the US Supreme Court
Friday morning's execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad seemed like a punishment straight out of the 19th century. But the mode of communication used to announce Gardner's impending death was strictly 21st century: Twitter.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a Texas death row inmate should have access to evidence for DNA testing that he says could clear him of three murders.
