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| With help, Pa. lifers now have a fighting chance at clemency |
| By philly.com- Samantha Melamed |
| Published: 05/10/2016 |
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Thurmond Berry had served nearly four decades toward a life sentence when he received a note in his cell instructing him to meet with a Dr. Kathleen Brown, a professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. He'd been ill, so he figured it was a checkup. Instead, the woman waiting for him in a meeting room at Graterford Prison told him, "I'm here to get you out of prison." The plan Brown laid out wasn't that much more far-fetched than if she'd suggested that the 68-year-old great-grandfather scale Graterford's high walls and shimmy through the barbed wire loops to freedom. She intended to help Berry win commutation - a second chance denied him five times before. Read More. |
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