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Outlook: Finding Love on Death Row

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Shujaa Graham and Phyllis Prentice

01/05/2017 GMT

Finding Love on Death Row

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Shujaa Graham fell in love with his nurse, Phyllis, when he was on death row.

Shujaa Graham and Phyllis Prentice fell in love after they met when he was on death row for a crime he didn't commit.  Since his release he campaigns against capital punishment.

When American Shujaa Graham was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, he ended up on death row.  It was there he met his future wife, Phyllis Prentice, who worked as a nurse in the prison. Shujaa was finally released from prison in 1981 after being exonerated.  He now campaigns against the death penalty.  

The famous Ritz Hotel in London has had a resident pianist for the past twenty-two years. His name is Ian Gomes and he's known for being able to play anything from Taylor Swift to Tchaikovsky.  During his career - spanning an incredible fifty years - he's also got to play for some rather famous people, including his idol Frank Sinatra.  Emily Webb went along to meet Ian at his favourite spot - in front of the piano in the hotel's Palm Court.

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