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New Evidence Rejected in Missouri Death Row Case

By AAN Staff
july 11, 2002  10:38 am
New Evidence Rejected in Missouri Death Row Case
Pitch Weekly’s T.R. Witcher goes behind the bars of death row to examine the case of Joe Amrine, who’s awaiting execution for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Amrine admits he raped and stabbed other inmates. "That was just the way it was," Amrine tells Witcher. "Either you did that or you were done to." But Amrine says he didn’t stab his friend Gary Barber to death in 1985 with a shank made from the metal handle of a paint roller. “Despite jurors' admitting they made the wrong decision, despite three witnesses who now say they all lied … Amrine remains on death row,” Witcher reports. “Now the buck stops at [Missouri] Governor Bob Holden's desk -- or on Amrine's gurney.” Amrine is realistic about his chances. “For him to give me a pardon, that would be kind of like career suicide.”
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