Entries tagged with “Derrick Jamison”

Mar 18, 2026

Ohio Court ​“Formally Vindicates” Death Row Exoneree 41 Years After Conviction, Opening the Door for Potentially 1 Million Dollars in Wrongful Conviction Compensation

On March 5, 2026, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christopher McDowell​“for­mal­ly vin­di­cat­ed” death-sen­­tenced exoneree Derrick Jamison, allow­ing him to seek mon­e­tary com­pen­sa­tion from the state for his wrong­ful incar­cer­a­tion 21 years after pros­e­cu­tors dropped charges. Mr. Jamison, who was sched­uled for exe­cu­tion six times while impris­oned, filed a law­suit seek­ing a for­mal dec­la­ra­tion of wrong­ful impris­on­ment in 2024. With this for­mal dec­la­ra­tion, he can…

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Jan 06, 2021

Witness to Innocence Releases #ImLivingProof Video Series

Witness to Innocence, the nation­al orga­ni­za­tion of U.S. death-row exonerees, has released a series of short videos under the tag “#ImLivingProof,” fea­tur­ing the sto­ries of men and women who had been wrong­ful­ly con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death. The series, pro­duced by film­mak­er Martin Schoeller with fund­ing from the Art for Justice Fund, attempts to per­son­al­ize the dan­gers of the death penal­ty by show­ing the pub­lic liv­ing proof that innocent people…

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Jul 22, 2020

Op-Ed by Death-Row Exoneree Derrick Jamison: ​“I was Within 90 Minutes of Execution for a Crime I Didn’t Commit”

Derrick Jamison sur­vived six death war­rants dur­ing his two decades on Ohio​’s death row, com­ing with­in 90 min­utes of being exe­cut­ed. After he was exon­er­at­ed, on the day he walked free, his best friend on death row was exe­cut­ed. His sto­ry, he writes in a July 11, 2020 op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times,​“illus­trates every­thing that is wrong with the death penal­ty” and why it…