2015/4/2-One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates will go free on Friday after prosecutors acknowledged that there’s not enough evidence linking him to the 1985 murders for which he’s already served nearly three decades. The Associated Press reports: “Jefferson County …..
2015/4/2 – Mississippi NAACP Branch President Derrick Johnson commended a federal grand jury’s indictment of a University of Mississippi student for defiling a historical Civil Rights Movement landmark. “The people need to see that the wheels of justice do still turn, …..
2015/3/11-The shakeup continues. Ferguson City Manager John Shaw resigned Tuesday night, the latest in a series of resignations and firings that have taken place in the wake of a scathing Justice Department report that condemned the Missouri city for repeated constitutional …..
Innocence is not enough to get you out of prison. 2015/3/11-In May, the Innocence Network will hold its annual conference at a glitzy Hilton in Orlando, Florida. Lawyers, students, and activists from all over the country who work to overturn …..
2015/03/10 – Reading the headlines out of Madison, Wisconsin, it’s hard not to think about Ferguson, Missouri. But law enforcement’s response to the shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson will not unfold in the same chaotic, violent and distrusting way as the …..
