#wrongful conviction

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[kieraoonacrafts]

Painted using a limited palette challenge from @color-palettes. Also fitting based on the Lavender Scare during the 1960s and '70s, and Oscar Wilde had his library card revoked because of his "homosexuality" conviction. A bit of history to go with the art piece. He only just had his library card reinstated last year (2025), and accepted by his grandson. A bit of context to go along with this painting. Happy Pride folks!

[cheerfullycatholic]

Stop the Execution of Robert Roberson: An Innocent Man on Death Row

Robert Roberson is an innocent man facing execution on October 16, 2025 in Texas for a crime that never occurred. If Mr. Roberson’s executio

Robert Roberson is an innocent man facing execution on October 16, 2025 in Texas for a crime that never occurred. He recently filed two motions in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) to try to stop his execution. If Mr. Roberson’s execution is not stayed, he will be the first person executed in the United States for a conviction obtained using the now widely debunked ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ hypothesis. No court has yet reviewed the mountain of evidence proving that the tragic 2002 death of Mr. Roberson’s chronically ill toddler, Nikki, resulted from illness, medical error, and accident, none of which was Mr. Roberson’s fault. In 2002, Mr. Roberson’s two-year old daughter, Nikki, was sick with a high fever and undiagnosed pneumonia when she suffered a short fall from bed. Doctors had prescribed her Phenergan, a powerful medication that is no longer approved for children Nikki’s age and in her condition because of its respiratory-suppressing effects. She was also prescribed Codeine, a narcotic, not recommended for anyone under age eighteen. Mr. Roberson took Nikki to the emergency room, but hospital staff didn’t know of his undiagnosed autism. They misinterpreted his affect and subdued reaction to his daughter’s grave condition as a suspicious lack of emotion. The police and prosecutors similarly rushed to judgment and, after Nikki tragically died, Mr. Roberson was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to death under the now-discredited Shaken Baby Syndrome hypothesis. Mr. Roberson has spent 22 years on death row for a crime that never happened. We are calling on all of the relevant Texas authorities to intervene to stop this execution and prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.

[itsmythang]

George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.

His name was George Stinney Jr. Let us never forget his name nor his face, and let us remember that he was the victim of one of the most appalling injustices in history simply because of the color of his skin.

Remember how they killed this 14-year-old child. His crime was speaking to two white girls before they were found dead. A forced confession with no actual record of it occurring, just the sheriff’s word. Interrogated for hours with no attorney and no parent. They had to stack books for the child to sit upon for the electrocution.

pictures from a documentary and not original to the electrocution of George Stinney to the head.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Daughter of wrongfully convicted N.S. man says grief grows without probe of police | CBC News

The daughter of a wrongfully convicted Nova Scotia man says burying her father next month will renew her intense grief — especially if a cri

The daughter of a wrongfully convicted Nova Scotia man says burying her father next month will renew her intense grief — especially if a criminal investigation into his case remains stalled. Amanda Huckle says when her father Glen Assoun died about two years ago, she felt the accumulated injustice of the almost 17 years he spent in a federal prison for a crime he was found not guilty of committing. "As his life left his body, it's like all his pain just sat in the palm of our hands and we're left to carry this," she said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

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[lostmementomemori]

Joseph 'Joe' Arridy (April 29, 1915 - January 6, 1939) was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murder of Dorthy Drain, at the time 15 years old, in Pueblo, Colorado, his natal city. He was mentally disabled, and the police manipulated him to make a false confession. He was only 23 years old at the time. due to his mental disabilities, he didn't understand the concept of death or being executed, which had to be explained to him several times in different ways. He was executed by gas chamber. Joe only received a full and unconditional posthumous pardon by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter 72 years after his death.

[morbidology]

For 28 long and torturous years, Anthony Ray Hinton woke up in a cramped cell of 5 foot by 7 foot. From here, he saw 54 men be led to the electric chair. The following day, the air in death row would be thick with the smell of burnt flesh. Awaiting your death in the death chamber is a horrible fate for anybody but when you’re innocent of the crime that placed you there, it’s even worse..

When Hinton was 29-years-old, he was wrongfully convicted of murdering two fast food workers, John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vasona, who were shot dead during two separate incidents during armed robberies at their restaurants in Birmingham, Alabama. Hinton’s public defence attorney didn’t provide adequate counsel and even said to Hinton: “All of ya’ll blacks always say you didn’t do something.”

During his trial, his attorney hired a lousy ballistics expert with little to no experience and only one eye. The prosecution tore him apart, berating his poor eyesight and inability to use a microscope properly. Moreover, the jury completely disregarded the testimony of Hinton’s boss who claimed Hinton was at work during the murders.

Hinton was found guilty of both murders and was sentenced to death.

To add insult to injury, 16 years into his sentence, an Alabama court heard testimony from firearms experts that the revolver Hinton supposedly used to commit the murders could not be matched to evidence in either case and that the two murders couldn’t even be linked to each other. There were no fingerprints or evidence that indicated that the murders were perpetrated by the same person or even the same weapon. Nevertheless, with this persuasive and reliable testimony, the state refused to re-open the case. The prosecutor even wrote a self-published memoir in which he referred to Hinton as “evil personified” and a “rat bastard.”

13 years later, the court finally ordered a new trial for Hinton based on the testimony from firearms experts. On the 3rd of April, 2015, Hinton was finally released from prison and all charges against him were dropped. Hinton was the 152nd person to be exonerated from Death Row. He went on to write a memoir about his experience.

He later said: "The state of Alabama had ever intention of killing me for a crime I didn’t commit. They didn’t care whether I did it. They cared about the colour of my skin.”