Play the race card and the world is your oyster. Today there is no justice if you are not a person of color. superman

As it was during Jim Crow, there was no justice if you were a person of color.

Play the race card and the world is your oyster. Today there is no justice if you are not a person of color.

Some of these comments reveal so much about the psyche of the people who make them. If one wishes to be reminded of hooded horsemen, just visit any article or story regarding a tempting topic they can't resist and they will come. Instead of hoods, they hide behind an anonymous username.

Thanks Gov. Purdue.

Very sad and embarrassing.

10 lives flipped upside down from a wrong conviction. Just remember situations like this the next time you hear someone say "that's the past", "times changed", or "you shouldn't feel affected anymore". The fact of matter is these people were torn from their families, and stripped of their freedoms for most of their lives, up until now 2013. We've made progress, but surely this clearly indicates that lives are still affected even today. I can only wish them all the best and to reunite with their remaining family.

Why does the pardon website http://www.doc.state.nc.us/clemency/pardons.htm show them as pending still? Is this website even correct?

It is sad when people are not provided good representation in court....I am sure here are some good attorneys somewhere....and then there are not too good attorneys (the majority)....it is sad when people's US Constitutional Rights are VIOLATED....and they can NOT find or afford a good attorney....but this happens and it happens a lot....a person is supposed to be *INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY*....but this does not always happen....these people's conviction was overturned years ago....only half of the job was completed....Bev did not decide whether or not to overturn the conviction....

"Once again Bev has failed the residents of NC. They committed a crime; that can't be changed nor can their guilt."

What crime would that be? Being Black in the 1970s?

"This is obviously about the money - thanks, Bev, for another stupid decision - opening the State to being sued."

Would you feel the same if you had been sent to jail for something you had not done? I doubt it. Did your Mom not tell you that you should do the right thing, not just the easy thing?

"This doesn't feel right, unfortunately. Ok, the convictions were tainted and overturned. Fine. But, did they actually commit the crimes? Do we know they didn't commit these crimes? Why is she declaring them innocent simply based on the fact that their convictions were overturned? Everything I've read has said the convictions were tainted and overturned. Nothing I've read has shown they were guilty or innocent."

You seem to be unaware of the basic principle of US law. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. That their convictions were overturned so quickly seems to indicate that everyone knew at the time that they were not guilty and were simply scapegoats. Remember it was not long before this Racist LEOs had killed Civil rights workers in the South....

"And no justice ...still...for the victims..."

They spent years in jail after being wrongly convicted....that makes them victims as well. And worse they were victims of the State breaking one of the Cardinal rules - The Rule of Law.

This should have happened years ago.

"Thank God we've moved on from such savagery and are more civilized in my lifetime."

From some of the posts here it would appear some are still a long way from being civilized.

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