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Feb 19, 2019 · More than two years later, a man named Robin “Rocky” Myers was convicted of Ludie Mae Tucker’s murder. At the time of Ludie Mae’s death, Rocky was living across the street from...
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.
The case of Rocky Myers is a window into so much that’s wrong with the death penalty in this country. The 53-year-old, who has an intellectual disability, was saddled with an incompetent lawyer, convicted on the evidence from a key witness who has since recanted his testimony, and sentenced to death by a judge who imposed death sentence ...
Dec 15, 2023 · Rocky Myers has been on death row in Alabama, USA, since 1994. 15 December 2023. When Rocky Myers – an Alabama man on death row whom I have represented for the past 16 years – found out that we’d lost yet another appeal, he told me he was done.
Jun 6, 2024 · Rocky Myers, who has an intellectual disability, is a Black man who was convicted by an overwhelmingly White jury of the murder of a White woman. Siobhan...
Oct 10, 2023 · On the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International Australia is asking supporters to petition the Governor of Alabama to commute Rocky Myers’ death sentence.
Rocky Myers, a Black man with an intellectual disability, is under sentence of death for murder, despite no evidence directly linking him to the crime scene and the retracted statement of a key witness. The judge imposed a death sentence against the jury’s wishes.
