Featured on ABC – https://www.abc15.com/news/state/clarence-dixons-execution-reignites-death-penalty-debate Clarence Dixon is scheduled to be the first person executed in Arizona in eight years on […]
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The rise and fall of Winnebago County District Attorney Joe Paulus reveals the immense power of prosecutors – and how it can be abused
Paulus’s time as district attorney involved taking bribes, allegedly asking an officer to lie on the stand and bragging about having sex in his office.
Bogus Bite Mark Evidence and Homophobia: A Criminal Combination
Hear from two innocence litigators as they describe the harmful yet tantalizing power of faulty forensic evidence, and how it has been used to wrongly convict queer people of violent crimes. Queer author Valena Beety will discuss her book Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights, in conversation with Innocence Project Strategic Litigation Director Chris Fabricant about his book Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System.
Was Melissa Lucio interrogated and coerced into confessing to something she didn’t do?
Today we talk about the Melisso Lucio’s execution and reliability of memory and the psychology of false confessions. Plus, the impact on women, in particular, within the criminal justice system.
The Texas courts have spared Melissa Lucio’s life. Now she can prove her innocence.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has not granted a request to stay Melissa Lucio’s execution. Gov. Greg Abbott has not granted clemency. So the clock keeps ticking.
We all lose if Brittney Griner is left to languish in a Russian prison
Brittney Griner was likely a target of the Russian government on the eve of invasion
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