When Art and Love Save an Innocent -- from death row.

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/04/opinion/when-art-and-love-save-an-innocent.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region®ion=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-region

More about Ndume here:

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/if-not-for-love-and-art-ndume-olatushani-would-have-died-on-death-row/Content?oid=3406836

Today, Olatushani speaks with a mixture of philosophical insight and prison colloquialisms, as befits a man who's read more books than your average grad student, but who's lived most of his life behind bars. That reflects the terrible irony of his situation: The positive outcome of the life he has now — a loving wife, a new start, a growing career as an artist — came as the result of a death sentence.

That sentence no longer hangs over his head. But the cost of his new life was the 27-year stretch he lost to mind-boggling misfortune and staggering setbacks at every level of the legal system, not to mention his own early bad choices. In a series of interviews with the Scene, he relayed the tortuous path that led to his awaiting execution in a Tennessee cell, and the fight that brought his freedom — led by a woman so convinced of his innocence she literally learned the law to save his life.

[lovemydog]

1. Thank you pnwm.

Great articles!

Mind-blowing.