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Feb 19, 2019 · Rocky Myers was convicted of killing Ludie Mae Tucker in 1991, but his case is riddled with flaws and doubts. He has intellectual disability, his lawyer was incompetent, and a key witness was interfered with by police.
May 21, 2024 · In this episode, I’ll be speaking with two members of the legal team representing Alabama death-row prisoner, Rocky Myers. Casey Keaton is an Assistant Federal Defender and Sarah Romano is an Investigator.
Rocky Myers, a Black man, was convicted by a nearly all-white jury which sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for the murder of his white neighbor. The trial judge overrode their decision and imposed a death sentence—a practice now outlawed in Alabama.
Dec 15, 2023 · Rocky Myers is a Black man with an intellectual disability who has been on death row for 30 years for a murder he claims he did not commit. He is one of the 10 cases featured by Amnesty International in its Write for Rights campaign, calling for his clemency and justice.
Rocky Myers, a man with intellectual disability, was convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. He has no evidence tying him to the crime and his lawyer abandoned him. Sign the petition to urge Governor Ivey to grant him clemency.
Oct 10, 2023 · Rocky Myers has been on death row in Alabama, USA, since 1994, despite a lack of physical evidence and a diagnosis of intellectual disability. Amnesty International Australia urges supporters to petition the Governor to commute his sentence on World Day Against the Death Penalty.
May 1, 2023 · Myers was convicted of killing his neighbor in 1991, but a juror claims he was framed and the judge overruled the jury’s life sentence. He faces death by nitrogen asphyxiation, a new and untested method, unless the governor grants him clemency.
