Exoneration

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JJ Velazquez, Sing Sing, theGiro.com
October 1, 2024
A Manhattan judge vacated Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez's wrongful conviction in the killing of a retired New York City police officer...
August 30, 2024
Benjamin Spencer, who spent decades in prison for a killing in the 1980s, said he was "just excited that this…
July 17, 2022
Murder convictions of Vincent Ellerbe, James Irons and Thomas Malik were dismissed after prosecutors said the subway case was built…
January 21, 2022
Joyce Watkins and Charlie Dunn spent 27 years in prison before parole was granted in 2015, but Dunn died before…
Anthony Broadwater
November 27, 2021
A film adaptation of a 1999 memoir accusing Anthony Broadwater of rape has been dropped after the Black man was…
Nevest Coleman @AP thegrio.com
March 27, 2018
The Chicago White Sox have welcomed back a former groundskeeper who spent 23 years in prison for a crime he…
October 17, 2017
Lamonte McIntyre was exonerated after spending time in prison for a crime he didn't commit, but the state isn't going…
March 7, 2017
A study shows that black people are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be convicted of a crime…
October 7, 2016
"They admitted they were guilty," Trump told CNN. "The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against…
September 13, 2016
The Ohio Innocence Project received $15 million to continue freeing people who were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
June 28, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Texas man who served 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit now has…
January 27, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nine black men arrested for integrating a whites-only South Carolina lunch counter 54 years ago may…
January 10, 2015
Derrick Hamilton, 49, was convicted of the 1991 murder of Nathaniel Cash — even though he had nothing to do with
June 10, 2014
VIDEO - It is a cruel cliché to say most people in prison say they are innocent. Cruel because in…
April 8, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who has spent almost a quarter-century behind bars for murder is poised to be…
May 7, 2013
OPINION - Unless the governor of Mississippi intervenes, the Magnolia State will execute Willie Jerome Manning on May 7...
February 5, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they…
October 25, 2012
NBC New York - Cathy Watkins and Eric Glisson are enjoying their first night of freedom in 17 years. Ever…
May 31, 2012
RENTON, Wash. (AP) - Brian Banks will get a crack at the NFL, even if it's simply a tryout. The…
October 11, 2011
Cliché or not, it is hard not to imagine the familiar trumpet score along with the thwock, thwock, thwock of…