opinion
JUSTICE VERY DELAYED
Happily last year, the justices struck down Louisiana’s law allowing non-unanimous juries to convict people of felonies. Next up: Will they make it retroactive?
Jamila Johnson is the managing attorney of the Jim Crow Juries Project at the Promise of Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization that advocates for criminal justice reform, civil rights protections, the abolition of the death penalty, and ending other excessive inhumane punishments.