We applaud @NYCCouncil for passing the #HowManyStopsAct Intros 586 & 538. 👏🏽
These bills will bring critical and urgent transparency to the NYPD’s daily activities in Black, Brown, and low-income communities. Tell @NYCMayor to sign these bills into law!
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URGENT: Missouri could schedule an execution date for Marcellus Williams as early as Jan. 3, 2024. His life is at risk for a crime that DNA evidence proves someone else committed. Add your name to petition to stop this injustice before it’s too late: https://t.co/lBRYudbejD
Another powerful example of the hard work necessary to achieve an exoneration. We applaud all of those who made this happen for Delroy Livingston.
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HAPPENING NOW: We are at City Hall with @changethenypd to demand that @NYCCouncil pass the #HowManyStopsAct
Stop and Frisk is on the rise, and New Yorkers deserve to know the full extent of police interactions in their communities. We demand NYPD transparency!
"But it is rare for a judge to detail the failures in a case and to apologize the way Justice Johnson did to Mr. Walters, said his lawyers, Glenn Garber and Rebecca Freedman of the Exoneration Initiative."
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Like men, women are victims of wrongful conviction. In addition to the hardships of incarceration that men endure, women may be forced to prematurely separate from their children or even give birth in jail. EXI acknowledges these mothers yesterday, today, and every day. 💘
As a result of former MD Gov. Glendening's "life means life" policy, no one was released from a parole-eligible life sentence there for over two decades. He now encourages the legislature and @GovLarryHogan to fix this broken process. https://t.co/dKo6dQZT6x
"At the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, prisoners have told their families that they have gathered snow into buckets so that they can flush dorm toilets." Read more: https://t.co/rZcibx9zet
The Bronx District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit is looking into detectives’ tactics in 31 homicide cases that relied on confessions. The criminal justice system fails innocent people when police and prosecutors rely on false confessions: https://t.co/tiXfjLI6xW
A recent study by @exonerationlist found Black defendants are more likely than White defendants to be subject to police and prosecutorial misconduct. At EXI, 80% of our exonerees are black men.
February is #BlackHistoryMonth and an important time to acknowledge that wrongful convictions reflect and exaggerate the racism in American society. Black people are only 13% of the American population but they represent 49% of total exonerations: https://t.co/iCx4z6Rb0n
BREAKING: A bill to abolish the #deathpenalty in #Virginia has passed its House of Delegates, all but ensuring the state - the former seat of the confederacy and the second-most prolific death penalty state in the modern era - will completely abolish #capitalpunishment.