Friday Reads

 A man spent 37 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.  Time for a lawsuit.

Amos Robinson, now 58, and Abron Scott, now 57, were both identified as the killers in the two cases, in addition to a third. Grams was raped and murdered in August 1983. One month before, Lansen was also raped, shot and killed. Robinson and Scott were also linked to a third crime and Robinson in a fourth.

Robinson is currently serving three life sentences in the Florida Department of Corrections. His criminal history includes first-degree murder, kidnapping, two counts of robbery, second-degree murder and third-degree murder. In addition, he's killed two prison inmates.

Scott is serving one life sentence in the Department of Corrections as well with a background showing first-degree murder, kidnapping, two counts of robbery and burglary.

At least these guys are still alive. In many if not most cases this old, the killers have died. _______________

A civil case is going on in Minnesota whereby a woman has sued a pharmacist for refusing to provide her with medication to induce abortion or prevent implantation.

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Obit:  Albert Woodfox, 75, wrongly incarcerated for murder for 43 years until he was released in 2016, has died from complications of COVID.  He spent those years in solitary confinement.

Woodfox was a member of the so-called “Angola Three” – prisoners who were wrongfully convicted of the 1972 murder of a prison guard, Brent Miller, in Louisiana state penitentiary. The prison was built on the site of a former slave plantation and was commonly known as Angola, after the country from which most of the plantation’s enslaved people had been transported.

Before the murder, Woodfox and his fellow Angola Three member Herman Wallace had set up a chapter of the Black Panther party inside the prison. They used it to protest against the segregation of prisoners and the unpaid cotton picking to which Black prisoners were subjected in chain gangs in the outlying fields.

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