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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A private investigator who worked to get condemned inmates off death row pleaded guilty Monday to forging documents to support their appeals, later declaring she did so because the death penalty is "barbaric."
Kathleen Culhane, 40, admitted that she forged documents to try to stop the executions of four condemned inmates since 2002.
In her plea agreement, she admitted to two counts of forgery and single counts of perjury and filing false documents. State prosecutors had charged Culhane in February with 45 felony counts of forgery, filing false documents and perjury.
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