Sunday, May 3, 2026

May 3; Harry Ruiz: Manhattan: From our 'Enough to make one weep' department: Police suppressed the fact that they had paid thousands of dollars to a teen witness and her mother for testimony that sent an innocent man to prison for over 30 years, amNY (Police Bureau Chief and Resident Photographer) Dean Moses reports, noting that: "As Ruiz sat in the courtroom along with Kuby, his eyes welled up as he listened to Judge Mandelbaum underscore facts of the case that he had never known. According to court documents, prosecutors allegedly paid off the teen witness and her mother, who had substance abuse issues. The girl and her mother reportedly received $17,000 rent, living expenses. The District Attorney at the time even requested that NYCHA expedite the family’s application for public housing."...

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Listening to what was happening in the courtroom with all the evidence that was suppressed was a shock to me, because I n...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

May 2: Melissa Lucia: Gatesville, Texas: Question of the day: Asked by Death Penalty Action Executive Director Abraham Bonowitz: “Four years ago on Saturday, (April 22, 2022) Melissa Lucio was two days from execution,” Bonowitz said in a statement. “She is innocent. There was no crime. Why is Melissa Lucio still on Texas death row? There is no acceptable answer."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: " In April 2022, attorneys for Lucio and Saenz proposed a motion to vacate Lucio’s conviction, calling for her rele...

May 2: James Broadnex: Executed by Texas - even though his cousin claimed‘ I was the killer’ in the fatal 2008 robbery, even though prosecutors eliminated potential jurors during his trial on the basis of race, even though his cousin's confession was corroborated by the fact that his DNA, and not Mr. Broadnax’s, was found on the murder weapon and in the pocket of one of the victims,' even though his confession was false because at the time he didn’t care about his life and was under the influence of drugs - and even though prosecutors had violated his constitutional rights by using some of the rap lyrics he wrote to portray him as a violent and dangerous person in order to secure a death sentence." Yet another Texas Travesty! HL;

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: " His attorneys also alleged prosecutors dismissed all seven potential Black jurors on the basis of their race, “ut...

May 2: James Duckett: Tallahassee, Florida: Major (Welcome) Development: The Florida Supreme Court is demanding that DNA tested in the James Duckett murder case must be subjected to a statistical analysis, overturning a lower court’s ruling in the case. (Duckett, a former Mascotte police officer who is on death row for the murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in 1987, has long maintained his innocence in the case.)…Reporter Christie Zizo; ClickOrlando…"On Thursday, the high court ruled the underlying DNA testing data could be sent out for an analysis and an opinion under the direction of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, agreeing with Duckett’s attorneys that without the analysis from the data, he had not been provided the complete testing results, which he was entitled to."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: " The court also noted that the FDLE itself had suggested Duckett received incomplete testing results. The high cou...