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Courtney Heard
Nov 24, 20225 min read
Innocents: Death Row Exoneree #138
On the night of August 18th, 1992, a grandmother, her daughter and her 4 grandchildren were killed. An innocent man went to prison for it.
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Courtney Heard
Nov 17, 202012 min read
Innocents: The One Life The Pandemic May Have Saved
Is Pervis Payne an innocent man facing execution in Tennessee?
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Courtney Heard
Oct 30, 202016 min read
Bountiful: BC's Dirty Little Secret
The story of British Columbia's most notorious FLDS polygamist community, Bountiful, BC.
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Courtney Heard
Feb 7, 20188 min read
Atheist Inmates In Their Own Words: Critical Thinking Behind Bars
This is part two in a series about godless inmates in the US prison system.
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Courtney Heard
Jan 31, 20184 min read
Sneak Preview: Atheist Inmates In Their Own Words
I’ve written to dozens of atheist inmates, mostly in the U.S., to ask them what being an atheist in prison is like.
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Courtney Heard
Jan 3, 20185 min read
Innocents: The Body Behind The Dumpster
This is an ongoing series telling the stories of wrongful convictions in North America.
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Courtney Heard
Aug 30, 20174 min read
Why I’m Breaking Up With Catholics
The day I write off every last Catholic. Every single one of you.
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Courtney Heard
Feb 22, 20178 min read
This Believer Is The Perfect Example Of How Religion Threatens Critical Thought
This guy found god and suddenly began supporting the death penalty because of it.
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Courtney Heard
Jan 5, 20173 min read
Innocents: 21 Years For A False Rape Accusation
Brian Franklin spent 21 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
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Courtney Heard
Jul 22, 20164 min read
Innocents: Wheat Kings and Pretty Things
The story of the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard in Canada.
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Courtney Heard
Jun 30, 20165 min read
Celebrate Canada Day By Ending Canadian Blasphemy Laws
Celebrate Canada Day By Ending Canadian Blasphemy Laws
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Courtney Heard
Apr 19, 20163 min read
Innocents: Picking Cotton
When Jennifer Thompson-Cannino woke to a man in her room, she vowed to do everything she could to save herself and get this man caught.
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Courtney Heard
Feb 23, 20164 min read
Innocents: Too Late To Set Free
This is an ongoing series telling the stories of wrongful convictions in North America. Some of these stories contain content that may distu
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Courtney Heard
Jan 19, 20165 min read
Innocents: The Body On The Levee
Damon Thibodeaux spent fifteen years on Louisiana’s death row at Angola prison.
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Courtney Heard
Jan 11, 20164 min read
Every Atheist Needs: Making a Murderer
By now, if you haven’t heard of Netflix’s documentary series, Making a Murderer, you’re either dead or in a cult.
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Courtney Heard
Jan 5, 20165 min read
Innocents: When Murder Isn’t Really Murder
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
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Courtney Heard
Sep 22, 20157 min read
Innocents: The Body in The Creek
The story of the wrongful conviction and death row incarceration of Joe D'Ambrosio.
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Courtney Heard
Aug 11, 20155 min read
Innocents: How Not To Solve A Triple Murder On Coney Island
Brooklyn teen Anthony Yarbough was just 18 when he arrived home one night in 1992 to find his mother, sister and sister’s friend lying dead
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Courtney Heard
Jul 28, 20155 min read
Innocents: One Man, Two Death Sentences
Glenn Ford was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He’d barely begun his thirties when his boss was murdered during a robbery.
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Courtney Heard
Jul 14, 20154 min read
Innocents: David Keaton of the Quincy Five
Since Keaton, 153 more men and women have narrowly escaped being executed after it was found out they were wrongfully convicted.
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