Entries tagged with “Roderick Johnson”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Dec 17, 2020
Former Pennsylvania Death-Row Prisoner Roderick Johnson is Freed After ‘Egregious’ Prosecutorial Misconduct Bars Retrial
A former Pennsylvania death-row prisoner has been freed, one month after the trial court barred his retrial because of “egregious” prosecutorial misconduct by the county district…
Death Row
Conditions on Death Row
,Feb 23, 2021
NEWS BRIEF — Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Death-Row Exoneree’s Solitary Confinement Lawsuit
NEWS (2/16/21) — Pennsylvania: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reinstated death-row exoneree Roderick Johnson’s lawsuit seeking damages for his placement in solitary confinement for almost twenty years. Johnson was sentenced to death in 1998 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was not released from solitary confinement on death row even…