REPRIEVE.(The Talk of the Town)(Martin Soto-Fong)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 14-MAR-05

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Martin Soto-Fong was seventeen years old on June 24, 1992, when three employees of the El Grande Market, in Tucson, Arizona, were gunned down during an apparent robbery. Soto-Fong and two others were convicted and sentenced to death for the murders. Last year, the prosecutor in the case, Kenneth Peasley, was disbarred for misconduct in the course of the various trials stemming from the crimes, and the convictions of Soto-Fong's co-defendants were overturned, although they are still in...

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