Your newspaper has repeatedly reported the release of an innocent person from prison after serving years, often on death row, because of a wrongful conviction.
As I wrote in a piece about the case last year, he did not back away from that position even when the boys, now men, were exonerated, after serving years in prison — they were not, he said, "angels".
As I wrote in a piece about the case last year, he did not back away from that position even when the boys, now men, were exonerated, after serving years in prison they were not, he said, "angels".
After serving years in the House of Representatives, he won a bruising Senate campaign in 1996, and before taking office was asked to serve on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The risks each took when it came to Vietnam were profound, and half-forgotten now: King was told that he would set back the cause of racial equality; Ali, whose application as a conscientious objector was rejected for what the Supreme Court later acknowledged was no clear reason, not only lost his boxing license but came close to serving years in jail.
But those people are a tiny fraction of the more than 95,000 federal prisoners serving years—sometimes decades for drug crimes.
