Ten years ago, 49 innocent people were taken far too soon at the Pulse nightclub shooting during Pride.
We remember their names and honor their lives.
We must keep fighting to stop the senseless gun violence and hate plaguing our nation.
NEWS: Governor Wes Moore, along with Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott, have overseen an over 40% decrease in homicides in Maryland putting the state on pace for its lowest homicide rate in over 40 years. That’s huge.
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Canada has confirmed that referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was denied entry to the United States, is welcome to officiate matches in Vancouver. 😳
#AfricanFootball#WorldCupwithMicky
BREAKING — An Alabama federal district court has It "DECLARED that the Alabama Department of Corrections’ nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol violates the Eighth Amendment" and entered a permanent injunction against Alabama executing Jeffery Lee by gas suffocation.
The State of Alabama has scheduled the execution of Jeffery Lee by nitrogen suffocation for June 11, even though his capital jury voted against the death penalty and chose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
https://t.co/mI7FB8jYEC
JUST IN: A Philadelphia judge vacated the #wrongfulconvictions of Jermal Shuler, Marc Brittingham, and Rasheed Smith in a 1997 murder. The convictions were based on flawed forensic testimony and the unreliable testimony of a single eyewitness.
They spent 28 years in prison for a crime they did not commit.
Read more: https://t.co/PXyUsyy8y2
Keith Harward spent 33 years in prison for a crime he did not commit until DNA evidence helped free him in April 2016. Today, we celebrate a decade of Keith’s freedom and World #DNADay, which commemorates the discovery of DNA’s unique double-helix structure.
Book Keith as a speaker through the Innocence Project’s Speaker Bureau to hear his story and learn about DNA’s contribution to freeing innocent people and reforming the criminal legal system: https://t.co/d618CyfK8G
Robert Johnson is finally free after 29 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder at 16 no physical evidence or eyewitnesses and the key testimony was later recanted due to alleged police coercion
Pope Leo XIV explains why he visited a Mosque in Algeria: “The visit to the mosque was significant to say that although we have different beliefs, different ways of worshipping, different ways of living; we can live together in peace.”
“It is inexplicable why the Bastrop County District Attorney’s Office refuses to allow DNA testing of the belt that was used to kill [Stacey] Stites, despite the very substantial possibility that such testing could exculpate Reed and identify the real killer.” — Justice Sotomayor
Il nuovo sindaco di Monaco di Baviera è Dominik Krause. Esponente dei Verdi, 35 anni, laurea in Fisica (come Angela Merkel), gay in coppia con un medico. È la prima volta che un sindaco dei Grünen guiderà la metropoli della Baviera.
George Calicut Jr. lost more than 25 years of his life after a Detroit homicide investigator allegedly wrote out his so-called confession and led him to believe signing it could reduce the charge, get him bond, and send him home. Prosecutors now say that confession was coerced, and DNA testing further underscored the lack of evidence. When deception replaces justice, innocent people can lose decades they can never get back. https://t.co/TlzE6g8j2i