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Innocence
May 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Knew He Was Deporting Innocent People to El Salvador All Along
Many of the people deported to El Salvador have no criminal record, and Donald Trump knew it.
June 23, 2022
MagazineChris Pomorski
When Innocence Isn’t Enough
Christopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of Missouri says he must stay there—because he wasn’t sentenced to death.
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