APTOPIX Radio Host Pardon
Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, right, embraces Henry Louis Gates Jr. after his family received a posthumous pardon for his great-uncles from the South Carolina Dept. of Pardon, Parobation and Parole Wednesday Oct. 14, 2009, in Columbia, S.C. A posthumous pardon was given to Joyners' great-uncles Thomas and Meeks Griffin, who were wrongly sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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