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Louis Griffin

Case from Blocton, AL dated Aug 12, 1896

Victim Details

Louis Griffin

Male

Blocton

AL

1896-08-12

43

Louis

Griffin

07/14/2026

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In the intricate and often convoluted annals of Alabama's justice system, the case of Louis Griffin stands as a stark representation of a winding and fraught legal journey. Griffin, a male whose ethnicity is not consistently specified in public records, found himself at the center of a capital murder case that would see him sentenced to death, only to be later exonerated. The narrative began not with Griffin, but with the death of Christopher Davis in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1992.

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