For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history.
Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life.
But it's not over.
A thread.
Remember in 2003 when the Missouri Attorney General’s Office argued to the Missouri Supreme Court that Joe Amrine should be put to death for “finality” despite proof of actual innocence? That proof of his actual innocence had no bearing on the conviction?