DNA testing freed Robert McClendon, who is with, left to right, daughter Nicole Miller, niece Theresa T. Parnell and grandson Ronnie Vaughn.

A yearlong review finds deep flaws with Ohio's system for testing DNA to uncover wrongful convictions. Police and courts regularly destroy evidence. Prosecutors, benefiting from a flawed law, routinely oppose DNA testing. Judges dismiss inmate requests without a reason, as required by law.

http://mockrevolution.com/lucasville

2008 New York City International Fringe Festival's FringeU

Performance meets politics with Lucasville: The Untold Story of A Prison Uprising. In 2004, a book by the same name was published. The authors, family members and participants are now calling for an investigation and raising awareness about the use of the death penalty.

 

In Cincinnati, a federal appeals court has thrown out the death sentence
of a man convicted of kidnapping a Cleveland woman, beating her to death
and dumping her body in a junkyard.

The Abolition Movement is asking you, begging you, to do something TODAY to save the life of Jeff Wood.

His wife, Kristin, just met with the Texas Board of Pardons and we need to get phone calls and letters to them today, as they will make a decision tomorrow.

Jeff is innocent and did not kill anyone. You can get information at www.savejeffwood.com

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Like Kenneth Foster, Jeff was convicted under the Texas Law of Parties. We saved Kenneth from the death machine last August, now we must save Jeff.

This family needs each of us to help. 

A date with death: Richard Cooey is scheduled to be executed in October

By ERIC LYTTLE

On Oct. 14, the state of Ohio is scheduled to execute Death Row inmate Richard
Cooey by injecting a lethal three-drug combination through several feet of
tubing into a hollow IV needle inserted directly into his vein. The state
mandates that the killing be done "quickly and painlessly."

There's one problem, though. The medical professionals best suited to carry
out the process want no part of it.

There's a confounding contradiction in the Ohio Revised Code.