St. Louis prosecutors have reopened the case of a man, who had maintained his innocence in a drive-by killing until his execution in 1995.
The case involves Larry Griffin, who was given a lethal injection on June 21, 1995, for the murder of 19-year-old Qunitin Moss, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in a copyright story Tuesday.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce has reopened the investigation after a man wounded in the same drive-by shooting said Griffin was not involved, the newspaper said.
The disclosures were unearthed after a yearlong investigation financed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the newspaper said.
The project's investigators believe Griffin was innocent in the death of Moss. Joyce has assigned two lawyers to investigate the case in which the NAACP investigators have supplied the names of three men they suspect were responsible for Moss's death.
The lawyer who prosecuted Griffin for Moss's slaying in 1981 said he does not believe the new report.
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