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Barry Scheck

Co-director of the Innocence Project

Barry Scheck is the co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization that uses DNA to exonerate the wrongly convicted and advocates for other criminal justice reforms.

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Law and Order

Let an innocent man spend his last days at home

By Barry Scheck, Oct. 22, 2014

Max Soffar, an innocent man on death row in Texas, is dying of liver cancer. And he'll stay locked away — away from his loved ones who have suffered so much for so long — unless Gov. Rick Perry intervenes.