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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Louise Whitbread

HISTORICAL FACTS: Georgia man walks free from prison after 22 years as murder sentence is overturned - Caught on Camera

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A man from Floyd County, Georgia, has been exonerated after spending more than two decades behind bars following a wrongful conviction for murder.

Joey Watkins, now in his early forties, was sentenced to life plus six years in prison back on 2 July 2001 over the 2000 murder of 21-year-old Isaac Dawkins.

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