Rodey Reed on Texas death row (Photo by Jana Birchum).
“I fear Texas may execute an innocent man.”
Bryce Benjet, Senior Staff Attorney
Texas has scheduled the execution of our client Rodney Reed for November 20th. On Tuesday, lawyers filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Reed, who has been on death row since 1998 for the murder of Stacey Stites. The petition challenges the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ unexplained rejection of critical evidence of innocence in his conviction for the murder. Show your support for Reed and against his execution by signing this petition and sharing his case on social media before it's too late.
Kevin Richardson in Atlanta at the 2019 Innocence Network Conference (Photo by Lacy Atkins).
“That’s all we ever wanted: someone to listen to us.”
Kevin Richardson, Exonerated 2002
Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise together have endured the worst of times—arrested and convicted as innocent teens for the infamous Central Park jogger crime of 1989—and the best of times—accompanying film director Ava DuVernay to the 2019 Emmy Awards. The series When They See Us, based on their wrongful conviction, was nominated for 16 Emmys and streamed by millions of people around the world.
We spoke with Richardson about his role in the production and how it has changed his life and made the relationship with McCray, Salaam, Santana and Wise even stronger.
Anthony Wright, exonerated in 2016, sporting his Innocence Project t-shirt (Photo by Corey Chalumeau/Innocence Project).
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Wrongful Conviction Day is October 2nd, and to mark the occasion, we’re offering 15% off any order at the Innocence Project store with the code WCD2019. All purchases will go toward advocating for justice for people like Anthony Wright who narrowly escaped the death penalty and endured 25 years of wrongful imprisonment.
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Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Ava DuVernay, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP).
"This is for the men that we know as the Exonerated Five."
Jharrel Jerome, Actor
Actor Jharrel Jerome, 21, won an Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series for his role as exoneree Korey Wise in When They See Us. Jerome, who made history as the first Afro-Latino to win an Emmy acting award, thanked his family and director Ava DuVernay, and dedicated the Emmy to "the men that we know as the Exonerated Five: Raymond, Yusef, Antron, Kevin and King Korey Wise!"
