#wrongfulconvictions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wrongfulconvictions, aggregated by home.social.
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No One Dies Lying
On the twenty-second of May, 1929, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a woman named Zenana Shepard sent her nurse to a closet for a bottle of bootleg whiskey. She said the liquor had a strange smell and a strange taste, and she asked whether enough remained in the bottle to test it for poison. Then she said the sentence that would outlive her by four years and travel all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." The doctor was her husband, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the Army medical corps, and the government would later argue he had salted that whiskey with bichloride of mercury because he loved a woman named Grace Brandon and his wife declined to divorce him. Zenana Shepard died on the fifteenth of June. Her husband was convicted of her murder, and her sentence, the spoken one, did much of the convicting. […] -
No One Dies Lying
On the twenty-second of May, 1929, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a woman named Zenana Shepard sent her nurse to a closet for a bottle of bootleg whiskey. She said the liquor had a strange smell and a strange taste, and she asked whether enough remained in the bottle to test it for poison. Then she said the sentence that would outlive her by four years and travel all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." The doctor was her husband, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the Army medical corps, and the government would later argue he had salted that whiskey with bichloride of mercury because he loved a woman named Grace Brandon and his wife declined to divorce him. Zenana Shepard died on the fifteenth of June. Her husband was convicted of her murder, and her sentence, the spoken one, did much of the convicting. […] -
"I started to map out the attacks around Thornden Park, using police reports and stray newspaper clips for some of the later ones. The numbers and proximity were jarring." —Joaquin Sapien for ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?src=longreads #investigation #reporting #longreads #assault #wrongfulconvictions
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"I started to map out the attacks around Thornden Park, using police reports and stray newspaper clips for some of the later ones. The numbers and proximity were jarring." —Joaquin Sapien for ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?src=longreads #investigation #reporting #longreads #assault #wrongfulconvictions
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Searching for Accountability in an Unaccountable World
A new weather station, questions about free will, wrongful convictions, forensic genealogy, and a Colorado DNA scandal all point to one common theme: accountability—and what happens when those in power avoid it.https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/searching-for-accountability-in-an-unaccountable-world/
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Could an innocent person spend years behind bars? Explore the shocking realities of wrongful convictions and the lives forever changed by justice gone wrong.
#TrueCrime #WrongfulConvictions #Justice
Read more: https://www.wyalusing-wes.com/true-crime-wrongful-convictions/
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Wrongful Conviction, Qualified Immunity, and the Cost of Being Forgotten
A mistaken identity, an AI-driven arrest, and the long shadow of wrongful conviction—this post explores how easily lives can be upended and how little accountability follows. Even after release, the damage lingers in ways money alone can’t repair. -
Wrongful Conviction, Qualified Immunity, and the Cost of Being Forgotten
A mistaken identity, an AI-driven arrest, and the long shadow of wrongful conviction—this post explores how easily lives can be upended and how little accountability follows. Even after release, the damage lingers in ways money alone can’t repair. -
Florida Continues Its Execution Spree Despite Problematic Track Record
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/florida-death-penalty-desantis/
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Florida Continues Its Execution Spree Despite Problematic Track Record
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/florida-death-penalty-desantis/
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#Exonerated Man Now #Advocates for Others Impacted by #WrongfulConvictions
From a #prison cell to a mission for #justice, McCoy turns #personaltragedy into #purpose.
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#Exonerated Man Now #Advocates for Others Impacted by #WrongfulConvictions
From a #prison cell to a mission for #justice, McCoy turns #personaltragedy into #purpose.
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Zulu is featured on the podcast runaway Slave 2.0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcqlBeS7i_U
#KennyZuluWhitmore #innocence #wrongfulconvictions #Louisiana
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybQRq-_hR4
#DemocracyNow #TorturedByBlue🐷
WARNING: This story contains subjects like police torturing people, etc. Could trigger some. Please take care.☮️
The Exonerated: Two #Chicago Men #WronglyImprisoned for Decades Speak Out on Police Abuse, #Torture
#ACAB #ViolencesPolicieres #racism #WronglyConvicted #WrongfulConvictions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybQRq-_hR4
#DemocracyNow #TorturedByBlue🐷
WARNING: This story contains subjects like police torturing people, etc. Could trigger some. Please take care.☮️
The Exonerated: Two #Chicago Men #WronglyImprisoned for Decades Speak Out on Police Abuse, #Torture
#ACAB #ViolencesPolicieres #racism #WronglyConvicted #WrongfulConvictions
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Review ordered into another Post Office IT system amid claims of more wrongful convictions Review ordered into another Post Office IT system amid claims of more wrongful convictions
https://go.squidapp.co/n/eIOLNjU
#PostOffice
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeITScandal
#WrongfulConvictions
#SubPostMasters
#PostMasters
#Capture
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Review ordered into another Post Office IT system amid claims of more wrongful convictions Review ordered into another Post Office IT system amid claims of more wrongful convictions
https://go.squidapp.co/n/eIOLNjU
#PostOffice
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeITScandal
#WrongfulConvictions
#SubPostMasters
#PostMasters
#Capture
#PreHorizon
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"If she weren’t an educated, middle-aged white lady from west of the 405, how much of this would have happened?"
Hippie Topanga mom turned sleuth to aid convicted killer. Could she help set him free?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-28/an-innocent-man-in-prison-a-yurt-owning-topanga-teacher-together-they-exonerated-him
#TrueCrime #WrongfulConvictions via @losangelestimes -
"If she weren’t an educated, middle-aged white lady from west of the 405, how much of this would have happened?"
Hippie Topanga mom turned sleuth to aid convicted killer. Could she help set him free?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-28/an-innocent-man-in-prison-a-yurt-owning-topanga-teacher-together-they-exonerated-him
#TrueCrime #WrongfulConvictions via @losangelestimes -
Alan Bates sees ‘no end’ to Post Office scandal as payout targets missed | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/alan-bates-sees-no-end-to-post-office-scandal-as-payout-targets-missed#AlanBates
#Bates
#PostOffice
#PostOfficeScandal
#SubPostMasters
#PostMasters
#Horizon
#HorizonScandal
#Compensation
#PostOfficeRedressSchemes
#WrongfulConvictions
#Creswell
#BusinessAndTradeCommittee
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Alan Bates sees ‘no end’ to Post Office scandal as payout targets missed | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/alan-bates-sees-no-end-to-post-office-scandal-as-payout-targets-missed#AlanBates
#Bates
#PostOffice
#PostOfficeScandal
#SubPostMasters
#PostMasters
#Horizon
#HorizonScandal
#Compensation
#PostOfficeRedressSchemes
#WrongfulConvictions
#Creswell
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Post Office victims wronged in Horizon scandal to have names cleared by new law | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/post-office-scandal-horizon-capture-compensation-b2500726.html#PostOffice
#Horizon
#PostOfficeScandal
#HorizonScandal
#NewLaw
#Sunak
#CaptureITSystem
#Capture
#CaptureScandal
#DWP
#Jones
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Post Office victims wronged in Horizon scandal to have names cleared by new law | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/post-office-scandal-horizon-capture-compensation-b2500726.html#PostOffice
#Horizon
#PostOfficeScandal
#HorizonScandal
#NewLaw
#Sunak
#CaptureITSystem
#Capture
#CaptureScandal
#DWP
#Jones
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Ex-Post Office chair says government told him to delay compensation for postmasters until election | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/henry-staunton-post-office-delay-compensation-b2498177.html#UKGov
#Tories
#PostOffice
#SubPostMasters
#PostMasters
#PostOfficeScandal
#Horizon
#HorizonScandal
#Staunton
#BusinessSecretary
#Badenoch
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Ex-Post Office chair says government told him to delay compensation for postmasters until election | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/henry-staunton-post-office-delay-compensation-b2498177.html#UKGov
#Tories
#PostOffice
#SubPostMasters
#PostMasters
#PostOfficeScandal
#Horizon
#HorizonScandal
#Staunton
#BusinessSecretary
#Badenoch
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Revealed: Post Office designed Capture IT system linked to claims of wrongful convictions
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/revealed-post-office-designed-capture-it-system-linked-to-claims-of-wrongful-convictions/ar-BB1hS9oe?cvid=60cd08ea59884c7ad2ad8b04f8405e9a&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=10#PostOffice
#IT
#CaptureITSystem
#WrongfulConvictions
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Revealed: Post Office designed Capture IT system linked to claims of wrongful convictions
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/revealed-post-office-designed-capture-it-system-linked-to-claims-of-wrongful-convictions/ar-BB1hS9oe?cvid=60cd08ea59884c7ad2ad8b04f8405e9a&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=10#PostOffice
#IT
#CaptureITSystem
#WrongfulConvictions
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"Mr. Whitehead was arrested on January 31, 2003. His exoneration comes 21 years from the exact day he was arrested in 2003. He served almost 21 years after being wrongfully convicted for a 2002 robbery at B.B. King's Blues Club on Beale Street."
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"Mr. Whitehead was arrested on January 31, 2003. His exoneration comes 21 years from the exact day he was arrested in 2003. He served almost 21 years after being wrongfully convicted for a 2002 robbery at B.B. King's Blues Club on Beale Street."
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"1999 to 2015, Fujitsu's faulty accounting software aided in the prosecution and conviction of more than 900 sub-postmasters and postmistresses who were accused of theft or fraud when the software wrongly made it appear that money was missing from their branches."
Imagine getting convicted because of buggy software! 😬
#software #bugs #capitalism #wrongfulconvictions
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fujitsu-bugs-that-sent-innocent-people-to-prison-were-known-from-the-start/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social -
Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson claims Ed Davey to blame for Post Office staff being wrongly jailed – UK politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jan/08/rishi-sunak-conservatives-election-event-labour-keir-starmer-uk-politics-latest-updates#Tories
#LibDems
#30pLee
#Anderson
#Davey
#PostOffice
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Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson claims Ed Davey to blame for Post Office staff being wrongly jailed – UK politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jan/08/rishi-sunak-conservatives-election-event-labour-keir-starmer-uk-politics-latest-updates#Tories
#LibDems
#30pLee
#Anderson
#Davey
#PostOffice
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Post Office suspected of more injustices over Horizon pilot scheme | Post Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/07/post-office-suspected-of-more-wrongful-prosecutions-of-operators-over-horizon#PostOffice
#Injustice
#Horizon
#HorizonPilot
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Post Office suspected of more injustices over Horizon pilot scheme | Post Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/07/post-office-suspected-of-more-wrongful-prosecutions-of-operators-over-horizon#PostOffice
#Injustice
#Horizon
#HorizonPilot
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#shortfilm #documentary
#IAmMore: The Story of #TimYoung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo#TimothyJamesYoung wrongfully convicted because lying informant.
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#shortfilm #documentary
#IAmMore: The Story of #TimYoung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDy1jgVVxo#TimothyJamesYoung wrongfully convicted because lying informant.
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A recipe for #wrongfulconvictions. Bad #facialrecognition plus bad ID equals bad arrest. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #innocence #lawfedi #criminallegalreform
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Enlightening/sobering article by the Innocence Project about the racist U.S. legal system:
#innocenceproject #racialbias #racialdiscrimination #racialinjustice #jimcrow #deathrow #wrongfulconvictions #policemisconduct
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New registry documents wrongful convictions in Canada | The Star https://bit.ly/41c0h6U #crime #WrongfulConvictions #CharlesSmith #PAthology #UofT #cdnpoli @cdnpoli
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New registry documents wrongful convictions in Canada | The Star https://bit.ly/41c0h6U #crime #WrongfulConvictions #CharlesSmith #PAthology #UofT #cdnpoli @cdnpoli
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After 25 years of wrongful imprisonment, 2 Georgia men set free after newly uncovered evidence exonerates them of murder charges #WrongfulConviction #WrongfulConvictions https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/us/georgia-men-exonerated-wrongful-imprisonment/index.html
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How Anthony Graves spent 16 years in solitary confinement on death row, coming within weeks of execution, for a crime he did not commit.
Read the full story: https://www.godlessmom.com/post/innocents-death-row-exoneree-138
#Innocence #InnocenceProject #WrongfulConviction #WrongfulConvictions #AbolishTheDeathPenalty #PrisonReform #DeathRow #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #SystemicRacism #InstitutionalizedRacism #PrisonIsRacist
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22 April, is #Vanzetti s birthday
Riots Erupt After 1927 Verdict Against Italian Immigrants ⚖️ America in Color | Smithsonian Channel
Silly paranoia about #anarchists
#Racism & xenophobia towards #ItaliansOn August 23, 1927, a federal judge sentenced two Italian immigrants, #NicolaSacco and #BartolomeoVanzetti, to the electric chair. The decision would spark p...