One good thing happened Monday – The Exoneree Band played a benefit for Innocence Project Northwest at Century Ballroom for International Wrongful Conviction Day. Anytime you combine music and justice, it’s a good thing!
All the band members are former prisoners who were exonerated:
The music was great – mostly originals, like Only Freedom Matters:
Here the members of the band talk about their experience of being wrongfully convicted on New Day Northwest on KING 5:
The concert was part of a week of events by Innocence Project Northwest, Witness to Innocence and the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, including a Witness to Innocence Panel on Thursday night, October 5, 7-8:30 pm, Room 138 at the UW School of Law, featuring death row exonerees Sabrina Butler-Smith and Randal Padgett.
Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/491006907932050/
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