5/12/2023 0 Comments Bryan stevenson innocence project![]() ![]() In 1988, a lawyer named Bryan Stevenson proved that McMillian’s case had been mishandled and worked to appeal his conviction and death sentence. ![]() His sentence was a shock to the rest of the community, who wondered how something so cruel and unfair happened. McMillian had no prior criminal history and was a 45-year-old-self employed logger who had worked for many people throughout the community. Once it did, it only lasted a day and a half before he was sent back to death row. McMillian was held in death row for 15 tortuous months before his trial even began. There were dozens of black people who could testify to his innocence but the jury ignored them. During the time of the murder, McMillian was with his family 11 miles away from the murder site. In 1986, Walter McMillian, a black man, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a young white women. It is devastating that thousands of people have lost a huge part of their life if not forced to end their life due to a mistake from the so-called “justice system”. Not only this, 1 in 25 people waiting on Death Row are innocent. ![]() In that time, over 18,250 years were served by those wrongfully convicted. Since 1989, there have been 2,095 exonerations of innocent inmates in the United States. ![]() It is hard to imagine that today, thousands of innocent people in the United States are placed in jail or prison for a crime that they did not commit. ![]()
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