Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Jan 18, 2019
A Georgia judge has granted a new trial to Johnny Lee Gates (pictured recently, right, and at the time of trial, left) based on new evidence that excludes him as the source of DNA on implements used by the killer …
Race
,Aug 03, 2021
Racial bias in jury selection is compromising the “credibility, reliability, and integrity of the legal system,” and its effects are especially pronounced in death penalty cases, a new report from the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI…
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,May 22, 2020
Johnny Lee Gates (pictured) is free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georgia for a murder he has steadfastly maintained he did not commit. On May 15, 2020, Gates entered a so-called “Alford…
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Mar 16, 2020
More than forty years after he was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white Columbus, Georgia jury for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old white woman, Johnny Lee Gates (pictured) will be getting a new trial. On March 13,…
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Mar 23, 2018
New court filings argue that Columbus, Georgia prosecutors had a pattern and practice of systematically striking black prospective jurors because of their race, discriminatorily empanelling all- or nearly-all-white juries to try b…
Race
,Mar 23, 2018
New court filings argue that Columbus, Georgia prosecutors had a pattern and practice of systematically striking black prospective jurors because of their race, discriminatorily empanelling all- or nearly-all-white juries to try b…
Innocence
,Time on Death Row
,Sep 22, 2021
The Nevada Supreme Court has found that a prisoner who has been on the state’s death row for more than forty years is “actually innocent” of the death penalty and must be resentenced. In a
