At Jonesboro, Arkansas, three men convicted of killing three boys were freed from prison after they agreed to plead guilty to release one of them from death row. They still maintain their innocence in a legal maneuver called an Alford guilty plea.
See the ADG report. The LA Times has a report with this quote: "Today's proceeding allows the defendants the freedom of speech to SAY they are innocent, but the FACT is, they just plead GUILTY," Scott Ellington, district prosecuting attorney for Craighead County, Ark., said in a prepared statement.
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