Chris Joyner
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Chris Joyner is the politics editor and an Atlanta native. He spent the past three decades as an investigative and enterprise reporter covering local and state government, political extremism, campaign finance and government ethics. He's the author of "The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson," a story about Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn’t commit.
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Americus attorney seeks return of law license.

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