7 Black men were executed for alleged rape in 1951. Now they've been pardoned

(CNN) A group of young Black men executed after being convicted by all-white juries of allegedly raping a White woman has been pardoned in Virginia 70 years after their deaths. On Tuesday, Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons to the"Martinsville Seven." "While these pardons do not address the guilt of the seven, they serve as recognition from the Commonwealth that these men were tried without adequate due process and received a racially biased death sentence not simi

More than 2,800 have been wrongly convicted in the US. Lawmakers and advocates want THEM PAID

(CNN) John Jerome White was 19 years old when a Georgia judge sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison for breaking into a 74-year-old woman's home and raping her. Exonerated after DNA testing years later, he walked free in a state that does not have laws on the books to compensate the wrongfully convicted upon their release from prison. "I was 48 when I got out. It was rough," said White, who's now 61. "If it hadn't been for my family and the people who donated their ti

Former soccer player Jean-Pierre Adams dies after 39 years in a coma

, In a poignant tribute on Monday, PSG called him the club's "glorious elder." "His joie de vivre, his charisma and his experience command respect. Paris Saint-Germain offers its condolences to his family and loved ones," PSG said in a statement Monday. Adams, cared for by his wife Bernadette, had been lying in a coma at his home in the southern French city of Nimes since 1982. He was injured in a match and required knee surgery. During the operation at Lyon Hospital, an anes