A reporter learns how to listen for the gaps while reporting on Tennessee youth convicted of felony murder — for killings they didn’t commit.
Criminal Justice
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MLK50 relied on a list originally compiled by Ed Miller Jr., a Tennessee attorney who reviewed every first-degree murder conviction in Tennessee between 1977 and 2017.
Prosecutors seemed to be targeting people who “can’t fight for their lives because they don’t have money for lawyers,” Shawn’a Hatcher said. “It’s dead wrong.”