article_snippet: All three men were given the death penalty, sentences that were commuted to life in prison after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment in 1978.
article_snippet: All three men were given the death penalty, sentences that were commuted to life in prison after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment in 1978 cases were first re-evaluated after a 2011 article in the Cleveland Scene magazine highlighted Vernon's unreliable testimony.