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== LARRY GRIFFIN, EXECUTED INNOCENT JUST LIKE CAMERON TODD!!! ==

===CORRECT LARRY GRIFFIN STORY/NAJ KEBUL'S CORRECT NITROGEN EXECUTION PROCESS!!!===
'''Larry Griffin''' (September 23, 1954 - June 21, 1995) -  was a man accused of [[Murder|killing]] 19-year-old Quintin Moss. Moss was killed in a drive-by shooting while allegedly dealing drugs on a street corner. The alleged crime happened in [[Saint Louis, Missouri]], on June 26, 1980<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Larry Griffin |url=http://www.quixote.org/ej/grip/reasonabledoubt/Larry%20Griffin.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030111230256/http://www.quixote.org/ej/grip/reasonabledoubt/Larry%20Griffin.html |archive-date=2003-01-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Herbert |first=Bob |title=Convicted, Executed, Not Guilty |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/opinion/convicted-executed-not-guilty.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2005-07-14}}</ref><ref>[http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8556687 Did Missouri execute an innocent man?]. ''[[MSNBC]]'' (2005-07-12). ''Retrieved on 2007-11-20.''</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Humans make mistakes |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2005/07/21/humans-make-mistakes |work=[[The Economist]] |date=2005-07-21 |language=en-US |access-date=2024-02-07 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=How overzealous prosecution and racial bias result in unjust death sentences in Missouri |language=en |date=2022-11-27 |url=https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-11-27/how-overzealous-prosecution-and-racial-bias-result-in-unjust-death-sentences-in-missouri |website=KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Execution of an innocent? |language=en |date=2005-07-14 |url=http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/execution-of-an-innocent/article_b36d3d25-c6a5-5fc6-b27b-a11e1e6efec2.html |website=[[St. Louis American]] |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=L. Kirchmeier |first=Jeffrey |title=Dead Innocent: The Death Penalty Abolitionist Search for a Wrongful Execution |journal=[[Tulsa Law Review]] |language=en |issue=2 |volume=42 |date=Winter 2006 |url=https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2567&context=tlr |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref>. On June 21 1995, the State of [[Missouri]] executed Griffin by [[lethal injection]].  He is one of the few people in America ("free country") who were [[Death penalty|put to death]]  based only on the testimony of a single  [[witness]] who had been at the crime scene but not near vacinity of murder. There were others including Gary Graham who was executed on June 22, 2000, when Texas Governor George Bush & the Texas appeals board refused to give him life in prison instead. Larry Griffin maintained his innocence to the very end.

'''''The testimony against Larry Griffin came from Robert Fitzgerald<ref>https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g1/griffin-larry.htm</ref>, a career criminal from Boston. The testimony had loopholes, also when the crime occurred Fitzgerald was not in Griffin's proximity!!!'''''

There were others who were executed by testimony of single witness including Garay Graham (Shaka Sankofa) who was executed on June 22, 2000 when Texas Governor George Bush & the Texas appeals board refused to give him [[Life imprisonment|life in prison]] instead. He maintained his innocence until he was executed for the crime.<ref>{{Cite report|url=https://ejusa.org/wp-content/uploads/reasonabledoubt.pdf|title=Reasonable Doubts: Is the U.S. Executing Innocent People?|date=2000-10-26|publisher=Equal Justice USA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Convicted killer executed, but was he guilty? |language=en |date=2007-06-25 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19418891 |website=NBC News |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref>

== Re-opened investigation ==
After Griffin's execution, a 2005 post-execution investigation was sponsored by the [[NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zernike |first=Kate |title=Executed Man May Be Cleared in New Inquiry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/us/executed-man-may-be-cleared-in-new-inquiry.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2005-07-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Missouri death sentence case gets another look |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8841547 |work=[[MSNBC]] |date=2005-08-05 |language=en-US |access-date=2007-11-20 |agency=[[The Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Campaign to clear executed US man |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4678553.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2005-07-13 |language=en-GB |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref> This NAACP investigation raised doubts about the conviction (the shooter's identity), and caused an investigation by the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office. The St. Louis City investigation ended in a finding that "the right person was convicted".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Chicago |title=Report: Executed inmate was guilty |language=en-US |date=2007-07-13 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/07/13/report-executed-inmate-was-guilty/ |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref>

However investigation was botched since it only centered only around original prosecutors who convicted Larry Griffin. Nothing new was introduced to the case. <ref>deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/executed-but-possibly-innocent#Larry_Griffin</ref>