‘Never Give Up’: Ronnie Long, Wrongfully Convicted by All-White Jury, Freed After 44 Years in Prison

Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/28/never-give-ronnie-long-wrongfully-convicted-all-white-jury-freed-after-44-years Published on Friday, August 28, 2020 by Common Dreams Sentenced to life behind bars for a rape he did not commit, Long’s attorneys learned in 2015 that investigators withheld exculpatory evidence proving his innocence.  By Brett Wilkins, … Continued

Examining Racial Disparity in Exonerations

From the Sentencing Project (http://www.sentencingproject.org): “There is no single explanation” for the racial disparity in exonerations, according to a recent report by the National Registry of Exonerations, covered by CNN. African Americans constituted 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in … Continued