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William Dillon

While in my last post I was grateful that an execution had not taken place in a fast manner as things in the era of that crime were, in this case I am simply grateful that an execution was not ordered.  You may have noticed that several of my blogs late have been related to exonerations, and also that many of them have come out of the state of Florida.  Well, that is going to happen as I work down my list of names.  There are going to be clusters of cases sometimes in which there are similarities.  Sometimes the names made it to my list from another list of some kind.  Today it is exonerations, tomorrow it may be executions or some other similarity.  That is just the way that it goes it seems. William Dillon spent twenty seven years in prison for a crime that he had always claimed he had not committed.  It is true that a vast majority of people who have been accused of crimes deny their guilty and it is understandable that those people are often not ...