09-02-2019 16:49 via kvoa.com

Exoneree Band to headline Innocence Project fundraiser

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The headliner at a March fundraiser for the Illinois Innocence Project will be a band made up of wrongfully convicted musicians.
The State Journal-Register reports that The Exoneree Band will play at the March 30 “Defenders of the Innocent” fundraiser in Springfield.
Together, the quintet spent nearly 100 years behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit. The band’s late founder, harmonica player Darby Tillis, was freed from death row and exon
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