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Keith Edmund Gavin, an African American man, was executed by the State of Alabama on July 18, despite ongoing concerns about the fairness of his 1998 conviction for the fatal shooting of William Clayton Jr., a delivery driver. Gavin’s final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a handwritten plea, was rejected without comment less than…
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After more than a decade of maintaining his innocence, C.J. Rice, formerly known as Charles J. Rice, has been officially exonerated from a wrongful conviction that resulted in over 12 years of imprisonment. The exoneration was pronounced at the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice in Philadelphia on Monday morning, marking the end of…
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