How Missouri’s Felony Murder Law Traps People for Defending Themselves.
by Thomas Birmingham for The AppealPublished
Local Reporting
Students and post-graduate fellows with the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab have teamed up with local news outlets around the country to produce data reporting and long-form storytelling about the felony-murder rule. The first two such partnerships — with Mississippi Today and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, reported by Elena DeBre; and The Appeal, reported by Thomas Birmingham — can be found here, with more local and regional stories to come.
At 17, William Davis was convicted of a murder he did not commit. His conviction was not wrongful. But is the legal doctrine behind it just?
by Elena DeBre for Mississippi TodayPublished