3 Men Who Were Wrongly Convicted of Crimes
Trump Directs DOJ to Seek the Death Penalty in DC “in All Appropriate Cases”
Trump’s executive order is “designed to spread fear,” Free DC says, “something we know authoritarians always do.”Bryan Hooper Sr. was wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years for the 1998 murder he didn't commit.
#JusticeServed #WrongfulConviction #MinnesotaNews #FamilyReunion #TrueStory #Exoneration #CriminalJustice #BryanHooper #Innocent #truecrime #murder #annakarolinaheinrich
In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value https://theconversation.com/in-death-penalty-cases-the-quest-for-justice-is-not-americas-highest-value-256042
States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.
Just as gross as the apparent conspiracy to hide the evidence is DA Kunzweiler's insistence on appealing the declaration of actual innocence. Dude accept that you screwed up & move on. #exoneration
Man sues city of Tulsa, police over 'destroyed' evidence after being ruled innocent
The National Registry of Exonerations released its 2024 annual report last week. They recorded 147 exonerations last year where the people involved lost over 1,980 years of their lives.
Read the PDF report here: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/FORMATTED%202024%20ANNUAL%20REPORT.pdf #Exoneration #WrongfulConvictions
"Over 25 years on death row, Chris Duncan has relied on and benefited from the system Landry and his cohort are set to destroy."
Piper French for Bolts and Mother Jones: https://longreads.com/2025/03/26/the-human-cost-of-jeff-landrys-drive-to-resume-executions/
#Longreads #Louisiana #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #Incarceration #Exoneration #TrueCrime
Why is it such a hard sell to make someone right after the state takes decades of their lives? If the state screwed up, the state needs to make it up to the people they wronged. #WrongfulConvictions #exoneration #InnocenceProject
Several states are considering moves to change how they compensate people incarcerated after wrongful convictions. Georgia is one of 11 states with no compensation law. Individuals instead go to the General Assembly and seek a lawmaker to sponsor a resolution for payment. Critics say the process is plagued by politics. Some lawmakers want to move the decision to judges, but it's unclear if a bill will pass this year. Legislatures in Florida, Missouri and Oregon also are looking to update their compensation laws. Montana is considering an update of its expired program. and Pennsylvania is among those, like Georgia, looking to create one.
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