Justice

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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Innocents: The One Life The Pandemic May Have Saved

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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Atheist Inmates In Their Own Words: Critical Thinking Behind Bars

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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Sneak Preview: Atheist Inmates In Their Own Words

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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This Believer Is The Perfect Example Of How Religion Threatens Critical Thought

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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Innocents: 21 Years For A False Rape Accusation

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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Innocents: Wheat Kings and Pretty Things

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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Celebrate Canada Day By Ending Canadian Blasphemy Laws

Courtney Heard

Jun 30, 20165 min read

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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Innocents: When Murder Isn’t Really Murder

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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Innocents: How Not To Solve A Triple Murder On Coney Island

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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Innocents: David Keaton of the Quincy Five

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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