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    Death Penalty Conviction Thrown Out Due To Juror Tweets About Courthouse Coffee

    By Eric Limer 2011-12-09T15:21:16-05:00.

    Convicted murderer Erickson Dimas-Martinez owes his life to Twitter. Dimas-Martinez, in 2010, was convicted of killing a 17-year old and subsequently sentenced to death by lethal injection in the state of Arkansas. Luckily for him, one of the jurors on the case, Randy Franco, tweeted about the subpar quality of the courthouse coffee so now he gets to live. No, but really.

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