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Innocent
Wann verliert der Mensch das Recht auf Gerechtigkeit?
Bei dem Verdacht, der Festnahme, der Verurteilung oder seinem Tod?
Sollte der Staat nicht alles unternehmen, die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen?
Es wäre die einzige "Erlösung", für ALLE Betroffenen, auch die Opferfamilien!
| Innocent in Death Row | Innocent in Prison | Specially Prisoner |
Injustice can happen, but it is never too late to provide justice.
You have the inner greatness for it? To provide justice ..
Es kann geschehen, dass plötzlich alle Indizien, Aussagen, ja sogar DNA Analysen darauf hindeuten, dass eine Person der Täter sein kann. Was aber wenn Indizien, Aussagen oder gar DNA manipuliert oder fälschlich widergegeben werden? Will ein Insasse eine weitere DNA Analyse, muss er diese selber bezahlen, wer aber von den Inhaftierten hat das Geld dazu?
So kann es geschehen, dass jemand über Jahre unschuldig in der Todeszelle oder im Gefängnis "fest"- sitzt. Kämpft, um die Unschuld zu beweisen und das aus der Zelle heraus, wo es kein Telefon, kein Email und wenig Besuchsmöglichkeiten gibt. Verurteilte bekommen zwar Anwälte zur Seite gestellt, aber ob alle Anwälte für "die Sache" kämpfen oder einfach nur um des Geldes wegen ihren Job tun, darüber gibt es keine Statistik. Respektive habe ich keine gefunden. Alles dreht sich um den Kampf für Gerechtigkeit und Freiheit!
Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1787), Artikel 8.
Übermäßige gerichtliche Sicherheitsleistung soll nicht verlangt noch sollen übermäßige Geldstrafen auferlegt noch grausame oder ungewöhnliche Strafen verhängt werden.
- Was aber ist mit dem richtigen Täter? Wie geht er damit um, dass eine andere Person an seiner Stelle hingerichtet wird?
- Was macht es mit den Angehörigen des Opfers, wenn sie erfahren, dass nicht der richtige Täter den Tod des oder der Opfer, gesühnt hat?
- Wie fühlen sich Richter und Geschworene, wenn sie erfahren, dass sie jemandem zu Unrecht zum Tode verurteilt habe?
Staatsanwalt Mart Stroud
Hatte einst die Todesstrafe für Glenn Ford beantragt. Nach 30 Jahren wurde nun
seine Unschuld bewiesen. Mart Stroud geht hart mit sich selber ins Gericht.
DerStandart.at, Nov. 2015
Michael A O’Brien
Survivor of one of the biggest miscarriage of justice’s in Wales,
Author, Motivational Speaker and Co-Founder of The Dylan O’Brien Foundation
Michael A O’Brien: Miscarriage of Justice - a Survivor's Story by the CCRC YouTube
| Innocent - released! | Set free innocent |
Debra Milke Former Death Row Inmate Speaks About Her Life After Being Exonerated.
The Cornell Daily Sun, by Angela Li, 17 April 2019
September 18 Valentino Dixon - FREE at Last
Twenty-seven years ago, Valentino Dixon was convicted of 2nd degree homicide. Not only did he proclaim his innocence then, someone else proclaimed their guilt.
Criminal Justice Reform Journal, by Grace Winterwood
Live at the NYPL: Life After Death with Damien Echols
On YouTube
Mai 2018 How one woman is giving back after serving 23 years in prison for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Tyra Patterson recently had a moment she once thought she could only dream of: She got to hug the teens she says helped save her life. abcNews, by Jasmine Brown, Lauren Pearle, Katie Muldowney, Lauren Effron and Alexa Valiente
April 2018 Exonerated death row inmate tells his story at Legacy Museum
Despite his innocence, Anthony Ray Hinton lingered on death row for nearly 30 years for crimes he did not commit. "If God hadn't intervened and sent me his best lawyer, within two years I would have gotten an execution date," Hinton said. CBSNews
April 2018 Pakistani woman acquitted after 20 years on death row
KARACHI: A Pakistani woman infamously put on death row for killing her family in 1998 has been acquitted and walked free after 20 years in prison, her lawyer said Friday (Apr 6). Death Penalty News
April 2018 Man framed by police for murder awarded $10M in damages.
Acquitted of murder in 2015 after serving six years in prison, a wrongly convicted San Francisco man was awarded $10 million in damages on Friday. According to the federal jury, the two lead homicide detectives in the case violated the man’s rights by fabricating evidence against him and withholding evidence that could have helped him during trial. Nation of Change, by Andrew Emett
April 2018 Nation's longest serving exoneree cleared of murder after 45 years in prison. America's longest serving exoneree put his left arm around his attorney's shoulder in a Detroit courtroom Tuesday. She softly pat his 71-year-old hand.
mLive, by Gus Burns
März 2018 After 23 years in prison as an innocent man, former White Sox groundskeeper returns to his old job. Nevest Coleman looked around the White Sox ballpark in wonder as he walked down the third base line.
Chicago Tribune, by Gregory Pratt
März 2018 The sun shines for Anthony Ray Hinton: Freed death row inmate releases memoir. Anthony Ray Hinton spoke to the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham on Tuesday about the nearly 30 years he spent on Alabama's Death Row, and the memoir he wrote about his experience. AL.com by Ivana Hrynkiw
März 2018 Wrongfully accused man released after spending 3 years in Rikers.
Julian Douglas is thankful to be free after spending three long years in Rikers Island for a crime he did not commit. “The worst part wasn’t physical, it was more mental. That’s where most of my pain came from,” he said. PIX11, by Ayana Harry
März 2018 Good news, bad news for innocent people in prison
In 2017, Ledura Watkins, 61, was freed after serving more than 41 years in a Michigan prison for a murder he did not commit. This was the longest incarceration before exoneration in United States history. Other than his record-breaking incarceration, Watkins’s case was sadly familiar to students of wrongful conviction, a terrible miscarriage of justice that never should have happened. The Hill, by Jim Petro
Februar 2018 America's Guilty Plea Problem: Rodney Roberts
In 1996, Rodney Roberts was arrested for assault following a dispute with a friend. He was held in custody for a few days expecting release when he was arraigned for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl. Guilty Plea Problem
Februar 2018 Man wrongfully incarcerated for 38 years leaves prison with puppy he raised Malcolm Alexander spent nearly four decades incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. In 1980, when he was 21 years old, he was sentenced to life in prison for rape. Alexander said he was innocent then, and maintained his innocence in all the years since. Today, by Arin Greenwood
Februar 2018 Record payout approved for Simi Valley man wrongfully convicted of grisly 1978 murders. For years, from inside a cell at Folsom State Prison, Craig Coley couldn't get anyone to listen. But his message was clear and consistent: He was innocent. The killer who actually raped, beat and strangled his ex-girlfriend and smothered her 4-year-old son in her Simi Valley apartment Nov. 11, 1978, was still out there. Los Angeles Times, by Alene Tchekmedyian
Februar 2018 Kentucky Judge Dismisses 1992 Murder Indictments of Two Men Based on New DNA Testing and Evidence of Police Misconduct. Keith Hardin and Jeff Clark Wrongly Served More Than 20 Years for Crimes They Didn’t Commit. Innocence Project, By Innocence Staff
Februar 2018 The Harms of Alford Pleas When There Is Strong Evidence of Innocence. Over the past several months, ProPublica has published a series of stories that take an in-depth look at how wrongfully convicted people in Maryland are being pressured by prosecutors into taking Alford pleas in exchange for their freedom. Innocence Project
Januar 2018 Innocent but Still Guilty
After Fred Steese spent two decades in a Nevada prison for murder, evidence indicating that he was innocent was found buried in the prosecution’s files. It was proof that Mr. Steese, as he’d always claimed, had been hundreds of miles away on the likely day of the murder and couldn’t have been the killer.
The New York Times, by Megan Rose
Januar 2018 The Innocence Deniers
When convictions are clearly wrong, these prosecutors don’t just hinder justice—they actively work against it. Slate, by Lara Bazelon
Januar 2018 He Went To Prison For A Murder He Didn't Commit, Then Met The Man Who Put Him There. Rickey Jackson spent nearly four decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. npr, by Emma Bowman
Dezember 2017 How a wrongly imprisoned man got his life back
BALTIMORE, Maryland — They called him Mandela. Some inmates knew it was a nickname. Some didn’t. Either way, it didn’t matter much to Walter Lomax. He appreciated the comparison. CNS, by Julie Depenbrock
November 2017 Judge Overturns Conviction Of Innocent Man Sentenced To Life More Than 40 Years Ago. Wilbert Jones will finally get his freedom after spending most of his life in prison. HuffingtonPost, by Taryn Finley
November 2017 Man in prison for 29 years freed after Cook County prosecutors drop charges. Relatives screamed with joy a little after 6 p.m. Tuesday when Arthur Brown stepped slowly out of Cook County Jail — a free man for the first time nearly 30 years after he was arrested for a double murder he long insisted he did not commit.
Chicago Tribune, by Megan Crepeau
November 2017 Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee Walk Out of Prison After 24-Year Fight for Freedom. Today, Innocent Project client Eric Kelley and Centurion client Ralph Lee walked out of a New Jersey prison, experiencing freedom for the first time in more than 20 years. Innocence Project
Oktober 2017 Former Arkansas Death-Row Prisoner Rickey Dale Newman Exonerated After Nearly 17 Years in Prison. An Arkansas trial judge has dismissed all charges against former death-row prisoner, Rickey Dale Newman (pictured), setting him free on October 11 after having spent nearly 17 years in custody following the February 2001 murder of a transient woman in a "hobo park" on the outskirts of Van Buren, Arkansas. DPIC
Oktober 2017 Verurteilter nach 23 Jahren freigelassen
Nach 23 Jahren ist ein unschuldig Verurteilter in den USA freigekommen. Lamonte McIntyre wurde im US-Bundesstaat Kansas freigelassen. Die ersten Worte des 41-Jährigen: «Es ist schön hier draussen.» SRF
August 2017 Amid corporate career, Merck CEO exonerated man on death row Merck CEO Ken Frazier stepped down from a presidential advisory group Monday, citing a "responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism." CNBC, by Meg Tirrell
August 2017 A former Oklahoma death row inmate accepts settlement in $32 million lawsuit. Former death row inmate Yancy L. Douglas has accepted a settlement in his $32 million lawsuit against a former prosecutor and the state of Oklahoma. How much he will be paid from taxpayer dollars under the settlement was not immediately disclosed. NewsOk, by Nolan Clay
August 2017 Nick Yarris: innocent on death row for 22 years
Nick Yarris spent 22 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. He reveals what life is really like on death row and why this system of justice doesn't work. Racounteur, by Oliver Pickup
July 2017 Alabama Refuses Compensation to Innocent Man Who Spent 30 Years on Death Row. Since Anthony Ray Hinton was exonerated and released from death row over two years ago, Alabama lawmakers have not only refused to compensate him for the three decades he spent on death row for a crime he did not commit, but also passed legislation changing the appeals process in death penalty cases so that innocent people like Mr. Hinton now face an even greater risk of being executed.
The Equal Justice Initiative
July 2017 Florida Man Exonerated of Murder and Released from Death Row. Ralph Wright Jr. was exonerated and released from Florida’s death row on Tuesday after a circuit court acquitted him of a 2007 double murder. Death Penalty News
July 2017 Heidi Allen case: From prison, Gary Thibodeau says, "I've been innocent since Day One". Gary Thibodeau from the Clinton Correctional Facility Gary Thibodeau is serving out his 25 year sentence for kidnapping and the murder of Heidi Allen in New Haven, Oswego County in 1994 in the Clinton Correctional Facility.
Syracuse, by John O'Brien
July 2017 High school bonds forged again, after years lost to wrongful conviction: Jeffrey Deskovic. Recently the Peekskill High School Class of 1992 held a 25th reunion celebration. Misgivings and anticipation filled me. Should I go? I didn’t graduate with my class. Before the conclusion of my sophomore year, I had been falsely convicted of the rape and murder of our classmate. My public vilification was facilitated by the fact that at just 16, in fear of my life while also trusting the lies of the police that I was not going to be arrested, I falsely confessed. lohud, by Jeffrey Deskovic
July 2017 How Concealing Key Evidence Convicts the Innocent
On June 22, in Turner vs. United States, the Supreme Court, by a 6 to 2 vote, affirmed the murder convictions of seven men. Unlike most Supreme Court decisions, Turner went largely unnoticed. The Crime Report, Samuel Gross
July 2017 Life after 43 years in solitary confinement
Albert Woodfox, who spent 43 years in solitary confinement has told BBC Radio 5 live he is "learning to live as a citizen" after gaining his freedom last year. An active member of the Black Panther Party, Albert was put in solitary confinement for the murder of a prison guard, a charge he consistently denied. BBC
Juni 2017 Innocence clinics seek new perjury trial in rape and murder of girl
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, MI -- Innocence clinics at two universities are seeking a new trial for a man convicted of lying to police during the investigation of the 2007 slaying of an 11-year-old girl has requested a new trial, even though he has already been sentenced and served his time. mLive, by Emily Monacelli
Juni 2017 Dismissal of murder case means Las Vegas man will walk free after 22 years. A judge this week dismissed a decades-old murder case and ordered the release of DeMarlo Berry, a Las Vegas man whose lengthy quest to prove his innocence culminated after prosecutors reviewed new evidence and identified a different suspect in the 1994 slaying of a Carl’s Jr. restaurant manager. Las Vegas Review-Journal
Juni 2017 Man walks free after federal judge tosses murder conviction
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Set free after 36 years in prison for a murder conviction that took decades to unravel, John Floyd donned a black T-shirt bearing the word "justice" Thursday before leaving the courthouse where a federal judge formally signed off on his release. KPVI
Juni 2017 Confessions by the self-professed guilty do not always clear the innocent Another man has confessed and defense lawyers believe Gary Bush - freed from prison with the blessing of prosecutors - is innocent of a pair of 2006 bank robberies. But that does not guarantee he will be exonerated. Richmond Times-Dispatch
Juni 2017 Lockup - Death Row Stories: Kevin Cooper
The evidence suggests that Kevin Cooper is innocent - but he is still in the Death Row
Juni 2017 Prisoner freed after 18 years for Fullerton robbery he says he didn’t commit. Guy Miles, imprisoned more than 18 years for a Fullerton bank robbery he says he didn’t commit, is a free man. The Orange County Register
Juni 2017 Nevada Man Released from Death Row After Evidence Reveals Innocence of 1988 Murder Ha’im Al Matin Sharif (AKA Charles Robins) was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend’s 11-month-old baby girl. A medical examiner testified the child had been physically abused and ultimately murdered. The child’s mother testified that Sharif physically abused the child. Innocence Project
Curtis McCarty
Curtis Edward McCarty was exonerated in 2007 after serving 21 years – including 19 years on death row – for a 1982 Oklahoma City murder he didn’t commit. McCarty was convicted twice and sentenced to death three times based on prosecutorial misconduct and testimony from forensic analyst Joyce Gilchrist, whose lab misconduct has contributed to at least two other convictions later overturned by DNA evidence. Innocence Project
Kafka in Vegas
Fred Steese served more than 20 years in prison for the murder of a Vegas showman even though evidence in the prosecution’s files proved he didn’t do it. But when the truth came to light, he was offered a confounding deal known as an Alford plea. If he took it he could go free, but he’d remain a convicted killer.
Mai 2017 From Death Row to Freedom: The Long Journey of James Dennis. On Saturday morning, James Dennis slipped off his prison uniform, put on a dark suit and walked out of a penitentiary in western Pennsylvania where he'd sat on death row for a quarter century. NBC News
Mai 2017 William Barnhouse Becomes 350th Person Exonerated Through DNA Evidence “Mr. Barnhouse has waited a long time for this day. While no innocent person should have to endure a wrongful incarceration, prison can be especially devastating for someone like Mr. Barnhouse who is dealing with lifelong mental health conditions.” Innocence Project
Mai 2017 Florida Supreme Court Orders Exoneration of Ralph Daniel Wright, Jr.
The Florida Supreme Court has directed that Ralph Daniel Wright, Jr. be acquitted of the murder charges for which he was sentenced to death in 2014, making him the 159th person exonerated from death row in the United States since 1973. DPIC
Der 159 Insasse der aus dem Todestrakt in Amerika entlassen wurde.
Mai 2017 Wisconsin, U.S. used flawed hair evidence to convict innocent people. The FBI has acknowledged its analysis of hair in a 1994 bank robbery case in La Crosse County was flawed. Patrick W. Greer, who had denied involvement in the robbery, was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison. La Crosse Tribune
April 2017 Rodricus Crawford Becomes 158th Death-Row Exoneree
Caddo Parish, Louisiana prosecutors formally dropped charges against Rodricus Crawford (pictured) on April 17, exonerating him in a controversial death penalty case that had attracted national attention amid evidence of race discrimination, prosecutorial excess, and actual innocence. He is the 158th person exonerated from death row in the United States since 1973. DPCI
Der 158 Insasse der aus dem Todestrakt in Amerika entlassen wurde.
April 2017 “Innocent People Have Been Sentenced to Death in Oklahoma,” Commission Concludes. The Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission after more than a year of work has recommended that a moratorium on carrying out capital punishment in the state be continued indefinitely. “It is undeniable that innocent people have been sentenced to death in Oklahoma,” the report concludes. The Intercept
Oktober 2015 Glenn Ford 30 Jahre Unschuldig, jetzt Todkrank
Glenn Ford sitzt 29 Jahre lang unschuldig in der Todeszelle. Als er herauskommt, ist er todkrank. Der Staatsanwalt gibt fatale Fehler zu und bittet um Vergebung. Doch dafür ist es zu spät. welt.de
August 2016 Debra Milk: "Ich habe Frauen gesehen, die sich anzündeten"
24 Jahre saß Debra Milke unschuldig in einem US-Gefängnis, 23 in der Todeszelle. Jetzt spricht die Berlinerin zum ersten Mal – und erzählt Horrorgeschichten aus der Haft und wie sie Freiheit lernt. welt.de
Mai 2016 Man wrongfully convicted of murder is fully exonerated 52 years later
Paul Gatling, an 81-year-old Virginia man, was fully exonerated on Monday after being wrongfully convicted of murder in 1964. Independent, by Justin Carissimo
April 2016 Albert Woodfox 43 years in solitary: 'There are moments I wish I was back there' “For 43 years the only person who was affected by what I did was me. The most difficult thing for me now is to remember that other people are affected by my actions, whether intentional or unintentional. I’m having to learn a new value system.” says Albert Woodfox. The Guardian
März 2016 Iwao Hakamada sass fast ein halbes Jahrhundert unschuldig im Todestrakt
Jeden Tag musste er mit seiner Hinrichtung rechnen. Wie man das überlebt. amnesty
März 2016 Debra Milk: So lebt es sich nach 22 Jahren Todeszelle
Ein Polizist hatte offenbar, das Geständnis der Deutsch-Amerikanierin gefälscht, auf Grund desssen wurde Sie zum Tode verurteilt und sass 22 Jahre unschuldig in der Todeszelle. welt.de
März 2015 Staatsanwalt entschuldigt sich
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to prosecutor Marty Stroud, who put Glenn Ford on death row for the 1983 murder of a jeweler in Shreveport, La. Ford was recently released after nearly 30 years in prison. npr.org
