Stories of Alleged Brutality by a Mississippi Sheriff's Department
Mississippians say they’ve been shocked with Tasers, beaten with batons, pistol-whipped and waterboarded by Rankin County deputies, for decades.
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Mississippians say they’ve been shocked with Tasers, beaten with batons, pistol-whipped and waterboarded by Rankin County deputies, for decades.
Andrew Royer involuntarily confessed to a murder in Indiana, judges ruled. Despite holes in the case, he served more than 16 years in prison.
The mother of the boy, who is Black and lives in Mississippi, has refused to sign a probation agreement because its conditions are too harsh, the family’s lawyer said.
Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were falsely implicated in the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart, a case that transfixed the nation and highlighted Boston’s history of racism.
Karen Dannett hardly knew her father. But freeing the man imprisoned for killing him became a decades-long mission.