An appellate court has ruled that Stacey Johnson, an Arkansas death row inmate who narrowly dodged execution in 2017, can sue the state in an effort to prove his innocence.
A Black man on death row in Arkansas after he was sentenced to death in 1997 has sufficiently pleaded an injury in fact after state officials denied him access to potentially exculpatory DNA evidence, the Eighth Circuit ruled.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state officials in Arkansas can be sued by Stacey Johnson, a prisoner currently on death row, over DNA tests.
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