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Mississippians say they’ve been shocked with Tasers, beaten with batons, pistol-whipped and waterboarded by Rankin County deputies, for decades.

Andrew Royer involuntarily confessed to a murder in Indiana, judges ruled. Despite holes in the case, he served more than 16 years in prison.

The mother of the boy, who is Black and lives in Mississippi, has refused to sign a probation agreement because its conditions are too harsh, the family’s lawyer said.

Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were falsely implicated in the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart, a case that transfixed the nation and highlighted Boston’s history of racism.

Karen Dannett hardly knew her father. But freeing the man imprisoned for killing him became a decades-long mission.

Glynn Simmons, 70, of Oklahoma, was exonerated after a 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, prosecutors said. He served the longest wrongful sentence in the United States.

“I felt embarrassed. I felt profiled. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't drink. So, there is a problem."

Marvin Haynes has long maintained he was wrongfully convicted in a 2004 homicide. Prosecutors recently concluded he was right.

The city of Winterset is being sued for arresting a man on an intoxicated driving charge after he passed field sobriety tests, two blood-alcohol tests and a drug screen.

Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.