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‘Intolerable injustice’: Innocence Project calls for halt to Missouri man’s execution
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoAcross the country, more than 3,360 people have been exonerated. That includes 52 people in...
Jay-Z’s Team Roc, Innocence Project request records on KCK police
WDAF via Yahoo News· 6 months agoKANSAS CITY, Mo. — A social justice group with ties to a hip-hop legend is taking another step in...
KCKPD will review 155 Roger Golubski cases. Lawyers say someone else should do it
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoGroups like the Midwest Innocence Project criticized Kansas City, Kansas, police’s plan to review...
Midwest Innocence Project featured as part of true crime series
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.· 11 months agoJun. 20—An attorney from the Midwest Innocence Project will speak this week as part of the St. Joseph Public Library's True Crime Time program. The talk will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 22, ...
Leonard Taylor, set to be executed Tuesday, helped innocent man win freedom from MO prison
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoLeonard Taylor, whose execution is scheduled for Tuesday, helped another prisoner prove his...
Lawmakers push for passage of Pete Coones act to stop ‘miscarriages of justice’
KSNT Topeka via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTOPEKA (KSNT) – Activists in the Kansas Statehouse are pushing for a new law to protect people who...
Attorneys, advocates seek stay of execution for Missouri man
Associated Press via AOL· 1 year agoRaheem "Leonard" Taylor, inset, and the execution chamber at the state prison Bonne Terre, Missouri....
Missouri executes Leonard Taylor, convicted of quadruple murder, despite innocence claim
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoLeonard Taylor contended he was innocent in the quadruple murder of his girlfriend and her three...
Mike Parson’s startling commutation of Britt Reid sentence is injustice to Ariel Young
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFollowing a Star investigation and the advocacy of the Midwest Innocence Project, Jackson County...
Mo. Man Who Was Wrongfully Convicted and Imprisoned for 28 Years Sues St. Louis, Claims Officers...
People via Yahoo News· 4 months agoLamar Johnson, 50, was freed from prison last year after serving nearly 30 years of a life sentence...