Connecticut Exonoree’s to Receive $4.2 million each in compensation
Posted on4 New Haven men get $4.2 million each for wrongful conviction By Shahid Abdul-Karim, January 15th 2016 After serving nearly two decades behind prison walls, four men have been… Read More >
Read More...New Orlean’s district attorney’s errors discussed in NY Times
Posted onJustice Gone Wrong in New Orleans By the Editorial Board, October 20th 2015 How many constitutional violations will it take before the New Orleans district attorney’s office is held to… Read More >
Read More...United Nations says Death Penalty practice doesn’t reduce drug crimes or abuse
Posted onOn World Day against Death Penalty, UN says practice deters neither drug crimes nor abuse October 10th 2015 The death penalty does not deter drug crimes, nor does it protect… Read More >
Read More...Radley Balko tells story of Montez Spradley and similar convictions
Posted onThe outrageous conviction of Montez Spradley By Radley Balko, September 21st 2015 Last week, an Oklahoma appeals court granted death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution about an… Read More >
Read More...Albert Woodfox’s release to be argued in 5th Circuit Court of Appeals September 9th
Posted onAngola 3 prisoner Albert Woodfox’s potential release argued in 5th Circuit Wednesday By Emily Lane, September 2nd 2015 The potential release of Albert Woodfox, who has spent more that 40… Read More >
Read More...Solitary Confinement under review nationally
Posted onCritics of Solitary Confinement Are Buoyed as Obama Embraces Their Cause By Peter Baker and Erica Goode, July 21st 2015 Before he was exonerated of murder and released in 2010,… Read More >
Read More...Jay Chapman, inventor of lethal injection, reexamines his views on the death penalty
Posted on‘It’s problematic’: inventor of US lethal injection reveals death penalty doubts By Ed Pilkington, April 29th 2015 Dr Jay Chapman, the pathologist who invented the lethal injection that has… Read More >
Read More...Cleveland Exonoree files lawsuit against city and former police officers
Posted onRicky Jackson files civil rights lawsuit for his wrongful imprisonment By Eric Heisig, May 19th 2015 CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ricky Jackson, a Cleveland man who spent 39 years behind… Read More >
Read More...Adnan Sayed granted opportunity to re-open case
Posted onCourt Grants Adnan Syed, Profiled in ‘Serial’ Podcast, New Opportunity in Case BY MICHELE RICHINICK 5/18/15 A Maryland appeals court will allow Adnan Syed, the subject of last year’s highly popular Serial podcast,… Read More >
Read More...Kia Stewart’s conviction overturned after 10 years in prison
Posted onAngola lifer has conviction overturned, charges dropped for pre-Hurricane Katrina killing By Helen Freund, April 13th 2015 A man convicted on murder charges in a pre-Hurricane Katrina killing… Read More >
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