Toforest Johnson\u2019s death penalty reduced to life in prison without parole over doubts about his conviction<\/p>\n
Toforest Johnson, an Alabama death row inmate, will no longer face execution after the state\u2019s Republican governor commuted his sentence amid increasing doubts about his conviction.<\/p>\n
Kay Ivey, the Alabama governor, commuted Johnson\u2019s sentence to life in prison without parole in the 1995 murder of William Hardy, a Jefferson county deputy sheriff. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent, and several former public officials, as well the local district attorney, have argued he should receive a new trial.<\/p>\n
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