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By Jeremiah Hassel After spending 30 harrowing years on death row, a Philadelphia man got to walk free on Wednesday with all the charges against him dropped. Daniel Gwynn, 54, was convicted of arson murder in 1994 after a fire at a building on Chestnut Street, located in a residential neighborhood of the major Pennsylvania city, killed unhoused woman Marsha Smith. He was on death row in a prison about five hours from Philadelphia for nearly 30 years, maintaining his innocence. But then, in 2016, a team of lawyers who had spent decades looking into his case uncovered a powerful piece of exculpa…