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Inside the push to exonerate a Black man executed 90 years ago in Halifax

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Daniel Perry Sampson was convicted in the deaths of two white boys. Now a lawyer and Sampson's great-great-grandson are working together to clear his name, saying he was executed for a crime he didn't commit.

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Inside the push to exonerate a Black man executed 90 years ago in Halifax

Daniel Perry Sampson was convicted in the deaths of two white boys. Now a lawyer and Sampson's great-great-grandson are working together to clear his name, saying he was executed for a crime he didn't commit.

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