PROJECTS

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“Post Mortem” is a project exploring the potential innocence of  people who have been executed in the US since 1976. The project is inspired by the case of Edward Earl Johnson (shown with his family, just before his execution, left), whose case of innocence was explored in Paul Hamann's documentary Fourteen Days in May. 

In the 2006 case, Kansas v. March, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia proclaimed that there is not “a single case — not one — in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit.”  The notion that there have been no innocent people among those executed is improbable. Since the U.S. resumed executions in 1976, more than 190 people have been exonerated off death row – one for every eight people executed. 

Justice League apprentices are creating a case repository that can be made available to journalists, academics, documentary makers, podcasters and drama producers so that these stories can be more widely told, and these men and women finally get the hearing in the court of public opinion that they were denied in the courts of law.