Edgar Ace Hope Jr. isn't someone you would want living next door. He has been found guilty in a string of crimes starting at age 14, when he stole a bag of groceries, and culminating in his conviction in two separate murders in 1983. Hope, now 40, has admitted one of those killings, for which he is expected to receive a life sentence at a new hearing. But he steadfastly denies committing the other crime--the slaying of a security guard at a Chicago McDonald's, for which he was sentenced to death. His lawyer last month detailed persuasive new evidence that implicates...
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