#wrongful conviction

Painted using a limited palette challenge from @color-palettes. Also fitting based on the Lavender Scare during the 1960s and '70s, and Oscar Wilde had his library card revoked because of his "homosexuality" conviction. A bit of history to go with the art piece. He only just had his library card reinstated last year (2025), and accepted by his grandson. A bit of context to go along with this painting. Happy Pride folks!

Robert Roberson is an innocent man facing execution on October 16, 2025 in Texas for a crime that never occurred. He recently filed two motions in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) to try to stop his execution. If Mr. Roberson’s execution is not stayed, he will be the first person executed in the United States for a conviction obtained using the now widely debunked ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ hypothesis. No court has yet reviewed the mountain of evidence proving that the tragic 2002 death of Mr. Roberson’s chronically ill toddler, Nikki, resulted from illness, medical error, and accident, none of which was Mr. Roberson’s fault. In 2002, Mr. Roberson’s two-year old daughter, Nikki, was sick with a high fever and undiagnosed pneumonia when she suffered a short fall from bed. Doctors had prescribed her Phenergan, a powerful medication that is no longer approved for children Nikki’s age and in her condition because of its respiratory-suppressing effects. She was also prescribed Codeine, a narcotic, not recommended for anyone under age eighteen. Mr. Roberson took Nikki to the emergency room, but hospital staff didn’t know of his undiagnosed autism. They misinterpreted his affect and subdued reaction to his daughter’s grave condition as a suspicious lack of emotion. The police and prosecutors similarly rushed to judgment and, after Nikki tragically died, Mr. Roberson was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to death under the now-discredited Shaken Baby Syndrome hypothesis. Mr. Roberson has spent 22 years on death row for a crime that never happened. We are calling on all of the relevant Texas authorities to intervene to stop this execution and prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.

pictures from a documentary and not original to the electrocution of George Stinney to the head.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

Joseph 'Joe' Arridy (April 29, 1915 - January 6, 1939) was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murder of Dorthy Drain, at the time 15 years old, in Pueblo, Colorado, his natal city. He was mentally disabled, and the police manipulated him to make a false confession. He was only 23 years old at the time. due to his mental disabilities, he didn't understand the concept of death or being executed, which had to be explained to him several times in different ways. He was executed by gas chamber. Joe only received a full and unconditional posthumous pardon by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter 72 years after his death.