Three months after The Marshall Project broke a story in the
Washington Post
revealing new allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that likely caused Texas to wrongly execute Cameron Todd Willingham, the newly formed criminal justice journalism group officially launched its site with another feature story in the
Post
. “Lethal mix: Lawyers’ mistakes, unforgiving law,” is an investigation of how a 1996 law that created a one-year
statute of limitations caused many inmates to lose access to a final appeal. According to the article, the deadline has been missed at least 80 times in capital cases, including sixteen who have since been executed.
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