Rocky Myers is sitting in a cell in Alabama, facing execution for a crime he says he did not commit.
And today is his birthday.
Rocky’s case is one of the many reasons the death penalty should be abolished. He was convicted by a nearly all-white jury for the murder of a white neighbor.
What’s worse is that the trial judge overrode the jury’s life sentence and imposed the death penalty — a practice banned in 2017, but not applied retroactively to Rocky’s sentence.
