a third trial was held to reconsider the sentence and again, the decision was unanimous. 36 jurors had determined that edward elmore should be put to death. 11 years later, a 34-year-old law student named diana holt came to the south carolina death penalty resource center as a summer intern. one of her first assignments was reviewing elmore s case. the first time i saw the name, i was reading through the transcript. diana started having suspicions that elmore s trials weren t fair. she was troubled that there were no expert witnesses and rarely challenged any of the prosecution s evidence. diana knew that a competent defense was grounds for an appeal. i felt like there was something wrong.
same prosecutor, same defense attorneys, same outcome. a third trial was held to reconsider the sentence and again, the decision was unanimous. 36 jurors had determined that edward elmore should be put to death. 11 years later, a 34-year-old law student named diana holt came to the south carolina death penalty resource center as a summer intern. one of her first assignments was reviewing elmore s case. the first time i saw the name, i was reading through the transcript. diana started having suspicions that elmore s trials weren t fair. she was troubled that there were no expert witnesses and rarely challenged any of the prosecution s evidence.
same prosecutor, same defense attorneys, same outcome. a third trial was held to reconsider the sentence and again, the decision was unanimous. 36 jurors had determined that edward elmore should be put to death. 11 years later, a 34-year-old law student named diana holt came to the south carolina death penalty resource center as a summer intern. one of her first assignments was reviewing elmore s case. the first time i saw the name, i was reading through the transcript. diana started having suspicions that elmore s trials weren t fair. she was troubled that there were no expert witnesses and rarely challenged any of the prosecution s evidence.
now to a story you ll be hearing a lot more about this week. right now in the u.s., there are more than 3,000 people waiting to be executed. at the same time, there are death row inmates that are being exonerated through dna testing and other evidence. one of those exonerated inmates is edward lee elmore. he won his freedom at the age of 53, having spent 30 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. he probably would have been executed had the case not been reviewed by diana holt. a 34-year-old law student named diana holt came to the south carolina death penalty resource center as a summer intern. one of her first assignments was reviewing elmore s case. the first time i saw the name, edward lee elmore, i was reading through a transcript. diana started having suspicions that elmore s trials
late on thursday into friday. and then one more thing i want to show you because this is too cool. it puts winter in perspective. if you compare last year to this year and look at the great lakes, you can see basically nothing frozen. as you look at this year, almost completely covered in ice. guys, we will all be happy when we say good-bye to this winter. what s that arctic north? that picture is unbelievable. pictures are from nasa, pretty cool stuff. thank you. if you like crime investigations, you are in for a treat. cnn brings you an original new series called death row stories which looks at the capital murder cases in america and here s a preview. a 34-year-old law student came to the south carolina death penalty resource center as a summer intern. one of her first assignments was reviewing al morris case. the. the first time i saw the