Witness To Innocence
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Empowering Exonerated Death Row Survivors Witness to Innocence is an organization of, by, and for death row exonerees.Our mission is to empower exonerated death row survivors to be the most powerful and effective voice in the fight to end the death penalty
Yesterday was World Day Against the Death Penalty. As Tennessee courts order the state to preserve evidence after the historic botched execution of Christa Pike, we are reminded why this system must end. Witness to Innocence is back to amplify the voices of death row survivors.
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Editorial: James Duckett could be days from death. Why his case still haunts many
There is still a chance to know for sure whether Mascotte police officer James Duckett was the man who raped and murdered an 11-year-old in 1987. But the state seems determined to botch that, and he i...
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Texas Abolition movement, please stand and make your voices heard let’s end the death penalty today!
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After News 5 investigation, Cuyahoga judge allows innocence claimant to seek new trial
After a News 5 investigation, a Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge has given Roberto Wynn the opportunity to seek a new trial in an effort to overturn his murder conviction.
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Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight ...
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Juneteenth reminds us: freedom delayed is freedom denied.At Witness to Innocence, we stand with death row exonerees who lost years even decades to wrongful convictions rooted in systemic injustice.Freedom must be real. Timely. Guaranteed.
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U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Fairness of Hypnotizing Key Prosecution Witness in Texas Death Penalty Case | Death Penalty Information Center
On June 15, 2026, the United States Supreme Court declined to consider the appeal of Texas death-sentenced prisoner Charles Flores, whose death...
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A Morgan County judge has ordered the DA to respond to Robin “Rocky” Myers’ appeal, 6/9/2026). Myers is seeking a new trial after evidence surfaced that his former attorney allegedly had KKK ties. If this is true, how could he have gotten a fair trial? Source: *Alabama Reflector*
Gary Drinkard addresses a crowd of more than 50 people gathered on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery on Monday, June 8, 2026, to protest the planned execution of Jeffery Lee. The group also submitted petitions to Governor Kay Ivey’s office.
Today, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol likely causes unconstitutional and intolerable suffering. The court found the method creates “severe air hunger” — extreme physiological stress and conscious suffocation lasting 1–3 min.
Alabama can move forward with a June 11 execution using nitrogen gas after a federal judge ruled the method constitutional. More than 200 people have been exonerated from death row. Justice — or politics shaping life‑and‑death decisions? ([AP News, May 29, 2026])
Five U.S. states now authorize execution by nitrogen gas suffocation: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi & Oklahoma ([legalclarity.org](legalclarity.org/nitrogen-hyp...)
Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution Method: How It Works
A look at how nitrogen hypoxia executions work, which states use the method, and the legal and ethical debates it has sparked.
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Exoneree Sabrina Butler-Smith speaking at the Social worker convention in New Orleans on the role of Advocacy for women on Deathrow,with Sister Helen Prgean and Sandy Joy.
Defense attys. want Tennessee governor to pause all executions after Tony Carruthers’ failed www.actionnews5.com/2026/05/25/d...
Defense attys. want Tennessee governor to pause all executions after Tony Carruthers’ failed
Carruthers was set to be executed on Thursday, May 21, but the execution was canceled after a failed lethal injection.
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While Mr. Carruthers was going through a botched execution in Tennessee, Mr. Richard Knight was being executed in Florida. He too was seeking DNA testing. It’s sad when the states refuse to listen to claims of innocence. share.newsbreak.com/ii4nnrrp
May 21, 2026 Mr. Carruthers is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee. There is DNA that doesn’t belong to Mr. Carruthers.No one should be executed when untested evidence exists that could exonerate them.Because the state has gotten it wrong 201 times already.
