Help Stop Rocky Myers's execution
Awareness Duration
From: 2024-02-12, 18:30 IST
To: 2024-02-28, 13:00 IST
Association
Animal Welfare
Sustainable Development Goals
Life On Land, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Venue
Delhi, India
Message For People
Rocky Myers is described by those who know him as gentle and kind. He loves his siblings, children and grandchildren, who adore him. He played drums in his church choir. He was diagnosed with an intellectual disability at the age of 11. He has a hard time reading and remembering dates or times. One night in 1991, his life changed forever in the town of Decatur, Alabama. An elderly white woman was murdered in a majority Black neighbor hood. Rocky, who is Black, lived across the street. Despite no evidence linking him to the crime scene, except for a video cassette recorder that belonged to the victim – which he maintains he found abandoned in the street – Rocky was convicted of her murder. Key testimonies against him were tainted by inconsistencies and allegations of police pressure, with one later recanted as untrue. An overwhelmingly white jury found him guilty but recommended a life sentence. The judge instead sentenced him to death. Overruling a jury in this way is now illegal in Alabama. The US Supreme Court ruled that defendants with intellectual disabilities “face a special risk of wrongful execution”. That is certainly true of Rocky. Because he was abandoned by his attorney, he missed the deadlines for appeal.
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