Widely circulated doubts of Lucio’s guilt in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, as well as a call for mercy from her other children, spurred a bipartisan group of nearly 90 lawmakers to plead with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott to either change Lucio’s death sentence to one of life in prison or halt her execution for three months.
'When we do everything that we can to ensure that an innocent Texan is not put to death by the state, or even a potentially innocent Texan is not put to death by the state … we are strengthening our criminal justice system,” state Rep. Jeff Leach'

 Cornell students are raising awareness about the case of Melissa Lucio, the only Latina currently on Texas’ death row ​as part of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide’s Her Whole Truth project — which aims to tell the stories of women on death row around the world --


Melissa Lucio i also  supported by the Innocence Project.

A new article by the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, listing a number of innocence cases including the case of Kevin Cooper.

In January 7th, 2014, we launched the SAVE Innocents campaign. The primary purpose of this campaign was to highlight cases of Innocence and provide minimum campaigning support for prisoners on death row in the USA.

Specifically, we had listed over 100 claims of innocence found on the internet in the USA, many of whom had been unheard of: Calls for help, words of supporters, blogs etc. We wrote to most of these prisoners and/or contacted their supporters. Whilst not all of us did respond to us (about 1/3 did not), many of them did, and we have helped them in a variety of ways. This has included:

- Organising investigations in partnership with their legal teams;
- Organising the financing of expertise;
- Organising media (news or documentary) coverage
- Organising a variety of campaigning actions

Three years down the line, where does our campaign stand?

We are glad to report that so far over 20% of the prisoners we are monitoring have had a positive outcome in their case:

-  3 prisoners have been exonerated;
-  4 prisoners have had their sentence quashed or commuted
- 10 prisoners received a new trial or a new sentencing hearing (in progress)
-  7 received an execution stay due to some concern in their case.
-  2 were granted clemency.

By contrast, 5 were executed, 1 died of cancer (and maintained his innocence till the end), and a few still remain to be contacted.

In the process of our work, others have also been asking us to help us, which means our campaign has been growing in size and we are in contact with many support groups or supporters around the globe. We are also now working in close partnership with Lutte pour la Justice, a French association, whose interest in justice and goals are very similar to ours.

We have been able to see, first hand, that some prisoners are in desperate situations, and need our help, which is why we have launched at the beginning of 2016 a new Emergency Fund  to help fight for justice. We will you be grateful if you think you can help us: please contact us  or make a donation to our New Emergency Fund. Thank you.

Finally, at the dawn of the new US presidency, we are imminently about to launch a new campaign that will help give a voice to those who have been silenced for far too long. We hope it will lead and support a vaster reform of the criminal justice system.

Thank you for your interest and support. Happy new year 2017!

An Oklahoma death row inmate is once again asking the Supreme Court to stop his execution. Richard Glossip is scheduled to be executed seven weeks from today.



Glossip says there are other innocent people awaiting execution across the nation. He hopes the Supreme Court takes up his case not just for him, but for them as well. 

“There’s been people who have been executed who are innocent and that’s just something we got to stop.” 

There is no timeline on when the Supreme Court can make a decision on if they will take up Glossip's case. Glossip's execution is scheduled for September 16. (Read full article on new9.com). 

Learn more:

Review some of the leading cases of innocence across the USA here

Review all the cases of death row prisoners already exonerated here

Review all the cases of prisoners who may have been executed despite serious doubts on their innocence here.

Review all the cases of innocents pardoned posthumously here

Review the most famous cases of innocence in history here