Gary Tyler, former death row inmate, to speak Thursday at Viterbo

September 19, 2018 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

LaCrosse Tribune By Kyke Farrus September 19, 2018 Gary Tyler served 41 years in prison for a murder he swears, and that all evidence suggests, he didn’t commit. But the 60-year-old Tyler, who can’t talk for 30 seconds without cracking a smile or erupting into one of his deep, booming laughs, has no semblance of anger in him. “You should never forgot what happened to you — never — but you should let go of the hate and animosity, because…

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Lessons from those wrongly convicted

September 17, 2018 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

LaCrosse Tribune By Keith Knutson September 16, 2018 In 1923, Judge Learned Hand wrote that our criminal justice system was “haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted.” The 1995 book, “Convicted but Innocent,” began to fill in Judge Hand’s ghost with actual data. The authors estimated that 0.5 percent of convicted felons in America were actually innocent. Our criminal justice system was shocked, even offended by the estimate. Only five years later, the best-seller “Actual Innocence” showed us…

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How a Death Row Inmate Made Injustice Pay Off

July 1, 2018 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

truthdig By Eric Ortiz June 28, 2018 Imagine you are charged with a crime you didn’t commit, then wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder. Now, imagine you get sentenced to death by electric chair, sent to one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, and assigned an execution date. That’s what happened to Gary Tyler. In 1974, Tyler was arrested for disturbing the peace as a 16-year-old sophomore at Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish, La., after a…

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“Gary Tyler, My Neighbor” wins grand prize

April 24, 2018 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

Budding Filmmakers at The International School of Los Angeles Win Grand Prize in Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Video Contest From more than 800 submissions, an entry from Ming-Wei Fasquelle ‘20 and Mwi Epalle ’20 at the International School of Los Angeles has won grand prize in the annual Speak Truth to Power Video Contest. Los Angeles, CA, April 24, 2018 –(PR.com)– Organized by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers and the Tribeca…

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Mike Farrell and Gary Tyler Speak Out Against the Death Penalty

October 13, 2017 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

All Saints Church discussion marks ‘World Day Against The Death Penalty’ Pasadena Now By Eddie Rivera October 12, 2017 Justice takes many faces and many forms. For some the answer to the death penalty question is swift and sure; for others, the lines are blurred between a respect for life and a respect for the victims. For actor Mike Farrell, self-described “social justice advocate,” it has been a decades-long battle, as an opponent of the death penalty, and an advocate…

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Former death row inmate Gary Tyler starts a new life in Pasadena

July 1, 2017 dadoonan Comments 4 comments

Pasadena Weekly By Shirley Hawkins June 29, 2017 Soft-spoken 58-year-old ex-prisoner Gary Tyler is finally at peace. The social activist has adopted the pastoral city of Pasadena as his home — a far cry from the grim, gray walls of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, infamously known as Angola, the worst and bloodiest prison in the nation. When Tyler was first incarcerated there 41-and-a-half years ago for a crime that he maintains he did not commit, he was the youngest person…

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Sentenced to death at age 17, Gary Tyler is building a new life in Venice

June 29, 2017 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

The Argonaut By Shirley Hawkins January 28, 2017 Gary Tyler is finally at peace. The tranquil Craftsman homes and lush tree-lined streets of Pasadena are a far cry from the grim, gray walls of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, infamously known as Angola, the worst and bloodiest prison in the nation. Tyler, 58, was incarcerated there for 41-and-a-half years for a crime he did not commit, arriving on death row before his 18th birthday. “I feel free here,” says the soft-spoken…

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Gary Tyler on Maintaining Hope and Compassion in the U.S. Prison System

October 14, 2016 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

truthdig By Emma Niles October 14, 2016 A life on death row is unimaginable for most people—but for almost 3,000 prisoners in the United States, it is stark reality. Gary Tyler used to be one such prisoner, unjustly convicted and sentenced to death at age 16 for a crime he did not commit. After spending 41 years of his life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, America’s largest maximum-security prison, Tyler was released in April. Tyler sat down with…

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A New Way of Life Justice on Trial Film Festival Set for Sept.17-18

September 15, 2016 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

Los Angeles Sentinel By Shirley Hawkins September 14, 2016 Statistics from the Sentencing Project on Racial Disparities in the U.S.Criminal Justice System found that “one out of every three black American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime.” One of the victims of the penal system was Gary Tyler, who was only 16-years-old when he was charged with a crime he did not commit. Sentenced to the notorious Angola maximum-security prison in West Feliciano Parish,…

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Man Once Sentenced To Death Row Works To Abolish Capital Punishment In California

September 7, 2016 dadoonan Comments 0 Comment

KPBS By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Do you support the death penalty? It’s one of the most serious questions to confront California voters this November and one of the most divisive. A Field Poll published in January shows 47 percent of California voters would choose to end the death penalty and replace it with life without the possibility of parole. That’s what Proposition 62 on the November ballot would do. The same poll found 48 percent…

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