Vanessa Potkin
Innocent Black Man Exonerated From Death Row After 26 Years
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Photo: YouTube Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated on Friday, January 8, 2021, marking the end of his 26-year fight for innocence. Mr. Howard, a ...
Black Man Framed by Police and Wrongfully Imprisoned Freed after 19 Years
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Photo: Twitter On Wednesday, Termaine Hicks (above left) received the news “the best I’ve heard in all my life.” After 19 years in prison ...
DNA Testing Ordered For Tennessee Black Death Row Inmate Pervis Payne
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[Pervis Payne’s Case] The Innocence Project: “Because Mr. Payne was at the crime scene, police zeroed in on him and did not investigate other ...
TRAVIS COUNTY TEXAS LAWMAKERS ASK DA FOR “JUSTICE AND BASIC HUMANITY” IN ROSA JIMENEZ CASE
[Mass Incarceration\Innocence Project\Rosa Jimenez] This past October, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel overturned Jimenez’s murder conviction and ordered a new trial based on Jimenez ...
