Florida House of Representatives passes bill to compensate exoneree William Dillon $1.35 million for spending 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Visit Bill’s Foundation here and download his album on iTunes or listen here (his album is really good!).- Dallas DA Craig Watkins questions death penalty and talks of his own great-grandfather’s execution in 1932
- A British barrister is trying to get the Queen to posthumously pardon 12 women executed in 1612 for allegedly being witches
- The Kentucky Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the Innocence Project (Cardoza) regarding the right to DNA testing in a 1992 murder case.
- Twists and turns in the California Innocence Project’s William Richards case.
- Police manufacturing evidence leads to miscarriages of justice in Jamaica
- Mississippi Innocence Project asks judge to toss convictions in aggravated assault case.
- Editorial on America’s failing criminal justice system
- Report by Pennsylvania Supreme Court calls pay for capital punishment defenders “grossly inadequate.”
- New York bill expands collection of DNA for database but fails to correct causes of wrongful conviction
- Pennsylvania Innocence Project hosts performance of The Scottsboro Boys
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