...Woods did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed three officers in 2004. His co-defendant, Kerry Spencer, did. In the weeks leading up to Woods’s execution, his family, activists and Spencer pleaded with Ivey to reconsider the man’s sentence....
...This shows how the one-for-every-nine statistic fails to fully encapsulate just how many innocent people end up on death row. Given the numbers we do know, there's no question our country kills innocent people...
I know that California’s death penalty system is plagued by racial bias. I know it, not only because of the solid data and multiple research studies that have documented it, but also because I lived it myself...
Julius Jones has been on Oklahoma’s death row for over 20 years despite maintaining his innocence & compelling evidence that racial bias infected his case. Watch community members read Julius’ clemency letter in this new video from Black Wall St Time.
