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Freedom after they threw away the key

This man was jailed for life without parole in Mississippi. Then Edinburgh law graduate Emily Maw took up his case. She talks to Rebecca McQuillan about her mission to free the innocent.

IN her first four years after graduating from Edinburgh University, Emily Maw helped save 10 people from execution. An unpaid criminal defence investigator for the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Centre, she did lonely work, often having doors slammed in her face.