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NEW VIDEO ON THE INNOCENCE CASE OF KEITH DOOLIN

12/11/2019

 
BASED ON A 4-PARTS DOCUMENTARY SERIES BY FRENCH DOCUMENTARY MAKER A. BUTHION, THE FOLLOWING TRAILER PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF THE FLAWS IN THE CASE. 

​DO YOU HOLD ANY INFORMATION YOURSELVES REGARDING THIS CASE? IF SO, PLEASE CONTACT US -- Find out more 
Trailer using video footage from the 4 parts documentary series by A. Buthion, 
'20 Years On death-Row'

OUTCOME: Six years after the launch of the save-innocents campaign

11/27/2019

 
As we are coming to the end of the sixth year of our Save Innocents campaign*, in the context of which we have been monitoring just over 100 innocence claims (out of over 2600 cases of prisoners on death row in the USA), we have observed the following:

. Four (4) prisoners have been exonerated (compared to 20 nationally).
There was no new exoneration of prisoners that are part of our list in 2019.

. Three (3) prisoners received clemency:
This is a relatively high number compared to the national average (15 clemency granted nationally).
​There was no new case in 2019 being granted on our list.

. Twelve (12) prisoners have had their conviction quashed or their sentence commuted, for example because they have had an unfair trial, or other such factors. 

. Three (3) prisoners are currently awaiting a new trial or sentencing hearing

. Six (6) have had execution stays. In 2019, this has included the case of Rodney Reed. 

. Nine (9) prisoners were executed (compared to 151 nationally). In 2019, this has included the case of Larry Swearingen, who was executed despite serious doubts on the safety of his conviction. Many others received execution stays.

. Two (2) died of natural causes. They maintained their innocence until the end.

Many other prisoners are still in the process of fighting their case to prove their innocence. They all need your help to prove their innocence.

* The Save Innocents  campaign started in January 2014.

New article from the Cincinnati Enquirer:"Death row inmate Elwood Jones fights for a new trial"

5/31/2019

 
Read a new article from Amber Hunt in the Cincinnati Enquirer, relating to the fatally flaws in the case of Elwood Jones.
The initial investigation was inarguably sloppy.
Despite severe bruising and bleeding, authorities assumed at first that Nathan had died of a heart attack and didn’t collect evidence. Hours later, the coroner ruled the death a homicide, prompting police to circle back and check the room. They found nothing of note. Even an assistant prosecutor said during Jones’ trial: “There were so many people through there, the crime scene looks like a college dorm room.

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REVIEW OF "TELL THE WORLD ABOUT US": AN INSIGHTFUL PHOTO EXHIBITION ABOUT PRISONERS AROUND THE WORLD AND ON DEATH ROW IN THE USA

9/21/2018

 
Through the bars of his solitary confinement cell in a detention centre for political prisoners, a prisoner pushed a piece of paper into the hand of photographer Rune Eraker. There was just one sentence written on it:
                                            "Tell the world about us"
This was in 2001. A decade and a half later, Rune Eraker embarked on a four year project in which he sought out forgotten prisoners and others who had had their freedom snatched away. He says:
This exhibition is about them,
those who are imprisoned, isolated, tortured, steam rollered and sentenced - in the worst cases, to death. Some for what they believe in.Others are victims of unjust laws, prejudice, politics, regimes, violence, religion of the devastation of war.
But the exhibition is also about strength.  About courage, the capacity to suffer and endure.

Along famous people such as Edward Snowden and the Dalai Lama, the exhibition casts also light on unknown prisoners, such as prisoners on death row in the United States from the Save Innocents campaign, who have been fighting to obtain justice for decades. Those are Michael Lambrix in Florida (executed in October 2017), Charles Mamou and Tony Medina in Texas. So many more could be brought to light.
Mike Lambrix, Charles Mamou and Tony Medina
Some fight to prove their innocence, some have died already. All fight to preserve their dignity and determination, and need our help.

If you ask me to chose between my state and my voice,
I would be rather without state than without voice.
Edward Snowden

The Nobel Peace Center calls on "everyone who visits this exhibition not to forget, but to see, talk about and protest against injustice" and leave the last words to Norwegian writer Arnulf Overland in his poem from 1937 ("You must not sleep"):

"You must not sit tucked away at home and say:
"So sad, poor them!", and turn your face away.
You must not tolerate without a care
Injustice that you never had to bear!
I challenge you with all the breath I've left:
How dare you walk on past and just forget!"

The exhibition is open to the public from 14 September 2018 until 15 January 2019. It is subsequently due to be shown at Tromsø kunstforening and the Portuguese Center of Photography. A book has also been edited in support of the exhibition.
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This exhibition will be shortly followed up by a new web show including the contributions of other prisoners in the USA. Please contact us  for any further detail.
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