Probably a psychopath/sociopath. Or at least close to it.

It’s amazing how the US has allowed so many of these assholes to get into power.

In our capitalist system the sociopath will always be favored to gain power. They can make decisions without empathy for how it affects people or the long term, decisions of which help propel them to the top of whatever it is they do. This includes bending or breaking the law. Someone who is not a sociopath, more altruistic, more honest, won't follow the tactics of the sociopath and therefore has less options to gain power and success.

This is how our society is designed and functions, objectively and undeniably. Also arguably it is part of human nature (competition, survival of the fittest) which is what conservatives love at their core. The fact that we try to overcome this with laws and such is difficult and challenging as we can see here. This person should have never got into a position of power, yet he did. How do we restructure society to make sure this doesn't happen?

That's most politicians in Missouri and Kansas, they're just shitty people pandering to the loudest shitty minority. The states are just so gerrymandered it's not funny. In Missouri specifically all of the population is centered around 3 major areas that are overwhelmingly larger and blue but somehow we go red every single time.

It’s amazing how the US has allowed so many of these assholes to get into power.

It's amazing how shit some people want to the world to be.

Pure fear of admitting mistakes and being held accountable.

The Missouri judicial system is racist as hell. I can almost guarantee that the person that decided to make those people stay in prison did it because the prisoners were black.

BOP (Bureau of Prisons) = Backwards On Purpose

I'm not sure if this is the same case I read about recently, but it was something along the lines of there being some other much more minor conviction and the AG is arguing that the thirty years spent on the wrongful conviction shouldn't count towards the time given for the other conviction.

I'd suppose the real motivation is hiding from the enormous civil lawsuits that will be coming in.

From a different article, the reason is absolutely ridiculous.

Judge William Hickle agreed at a 2020 evidentiary hearing that a jury would likely find Dunn not guilty based on new evidence, ABC News reported. Hickle did not exonerate Dunn, however, citing the 2016 Missouri Supreme Court ruling from Lincoln v. Cassady that only death row inmates can make an innocence claim.

Or Leonard Peltier. What was likely his final request for parole was just denied.