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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate Sedley Alley. The Innocence Project hopes to use DNA evidence to exonerate Alley 13 years after his execution. If the Innocence Project succeeds with Alley, it will be the first time anyone has used such evidence to exonerate a person who has already been executed. (AP Photo/Tennessee Department of Correction, File)

Judge denies DNA testing sought 13 years post-execution

By ADRIAN SAINZ and TRAVIS LOLLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, April Alley, front, daughter of Sedley Alley, hugs a member of her legal counsel in a Memphis, Tenn., courtroom. Since the early 1990s, 22 death row inmates around the U.S. have been exonerated through DNA evidence. Now the Innocence Project hopes to exonerate Sedley Alley, a Tennessee man who has already been executed. Alley was put to death by lethal injection in 2006 for the murder two decades earlier of Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins. Alley said his confession was coerced. A judge is expected to rule Monday, Nov. 18 on whether DNA evidence can be tested. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian via AP, File)

The Latest: Daughter ‘heartbroken’ over DNA evidence ruling

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FILE - This undated picture provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate Sedley Alley. The daughter of Alley, a Tennessee man executed in 2006, is seeking DNA testing from the crime scene. Alley was convicted of the 1985 murder of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins in Millington. He confessed to the crime but later said the confession was coerced. Barry Scheck, with The Innocence Project, helped argue for DNA testing in Alley’s case before his execution, but that request was denied. Scheck is now representing Alley’s daughter April Alley in the new request for DNA testing. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP, File)

DNA testing sought in case of man executed for 1985 murder

By TRAVIS LOLLER - Associated Press