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Jury awards $16 million to a Philly man whose death-row murder conviction was overturned

Jimmy Dennis spent 25 years on death row and in solitary confinement for a murder conviction a judge later called a "grave miscarriage of justice."

Jimmy Dennis, right, hugs the sister of a man whose murder conviction was also overturned, outside the Criminal Justice Center on October 1, 2019.
Jimmy Dennis, right, hugs the sister of a man whose murder conviction was also overturned, outside the Criminal Justice Center on October 1, 2019.Read moreDavid Maialetti / Staff Photographer