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Barring a last-minute stay of execution, Texas will execute Larry Swearingen tonight. He almost certainly did not commit the murder he was convicted of - as he was in jail when Melissa Trotter was killed @helenprejean @pamelacolloff @chronic_jordan 1/
I read thousands of pages of documents and transcripts, attended appeal hearings, interviewed prosecutors, defence attorneys, Swearingen’s family and Swearingen himself. This long read was published in @TheDublinReview andrewpurcell.net/?p=1609 What follows is a summary 2/
Melissa Trotter disappeared on December 8, 1999. Swearingen was among the last to see her alive. Police detained him on Dec 11. The body was found three weeks later, in a forest. It was in remarkably good condition - at first, hunters thought it was a discarded shop mannequin 3/
