Search results for 'Wrongful Convictions' (23)
Lawmakers are being urged to enact a new piece of legislation that would see police officers who are sent to prison immediately having their past cases reviewed to prevent miscarriages of justice.
Campaigners welcome plans to bring IPP sentences to a close but say the move is long overdue. Marc Conway, a former IPP prisoner, said Burnham’s action was ‘an essential first step’.
Nearly three decades after Rodney Reed was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Stacey Stites, new evidence and allegations of racial bias are fueling efforts to overturn his conviction.
Wrongful convictions are often defined by numbers: the number of lives upended, the number of years unjustly served, and the number of systemic failures that allowed such injustices.
In a surprise announcement, Lammy said the King has granted a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, after she was convicted of murdering her abusive lover.
Ohio’s capital punishment system has come into sharp focus with the release of two reports that examine the state’s death penalty record and draw starkly different conclusions about the future.
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