SAVE Innocent prisoners (USA)
Our campaign supports and educates on innocence claims in death penalty cases where:
1. The prisoner maintains he is innocent of capital murder & fights for his life
2. His guilt may be based upon unclear evidence
3. He has pen pals, supporters, or others ready to help
To date, over 20% if the prisoners we monitor have been exonerated, granted clemency, have had their conviction quashed,
were granted a new trial or have had their execution stayed.
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CONVICTION QUASHED
Jimmy Dennis (PEN) was a 21 years old aspiring singer when he was arrested and sentenced to death. After 25 years on death row, he haw been released from Pennsylvania death row after his conviction was quashed. On 16 May 2017, Jimmy Dennis walked free from death row. Read more
To date, three other prisoners from our list have been exonerated. Many more have been granted a new trial. Please contact us for more details.
RE-SENTENCED TO LIFE
Reginald Clemmons (Missouri) always maintained his innocence. Read more
To date, four other prisoners from our list have had their sentenced commuted to life. Please contact us for more details.
EXECUTION STAYED
Bernardo Aban Tercero is a Nicaraguan national on death row in Texas. He was convicted of the offense of capital murder for the murder of Robert Berger during the course of a robbery of Park Avenue Cleaners, in Houston, Texas, on March 31, 1997. He has always maintained it was an accident. He was sentenced to death on October 20th, 2000. In August 2015, Bernardo Aban Tercero was granted a stay of Execution (Find out more about the last 2015 campaign for Bernardo Tercero here).
To date, 5 prisoners in our list have been granted a stay of execution. Please contact us for further details.
CLEMENCY GRANTED
After 28 years spent on death row, William Mongomery was granted clemency shorttly before his execution by Governor Kasich in Ohio, due to the uncertainty in his case.
To date, three prisoners of our list have been granted clemency. Please contact us for further details.
EXECUTED
Michael Lambrix (FL) Despite a respectful request to the Governor Florida Rick Scott to grant an exceptional clemency hearing, Mike Lambrix was executed on October 5, 2017. We hope this case will compel the state of Florida to review its clemency process.
Mike Lambrix will be at the center of a unique exhibition on injustice at the Center of Nobel Peace in Oslo in September 2018. Read more
Thomas Douglas Arthur (AL) was executed in May 2017, after 3 trial and 8 execution dates. He always maintained his innocence. Below is a video made of the words he had written. It has been impossible to verify the legitimacy of his plea. May someone go and find out whether the USA have indeed executed an innocent man.
OTHER
Max Soffar in Texas died in April 2016 of terminal cancer before he could prove his innocence. In his last moments, he asked us to help his fellow prisoner Raphael Holiday, who was sadly executed on 18 November 2015.
