It was the worst travesty of American justice since the infamous Scottsboro trials in Alabama more than a half century earlier: Four young men from suburban Chicago -- boyhood friends with no history of violence -- were railroaded into prison for a 1978 interracial kidnapping, rape, and double murder they did not commit, and collectively spent sixty-five years in prison, two of the men on Death Row.
It was the worst travesty of American justice since the infamous Scottsboro trials in Alabama more than a half century earlier: Four young men from suburban Chicago -- boyhood friends with no history of violence -- were railroaded into prison for a 1978 interracial kidnapping, rape, and double murder they did not commit, and collectively spent sixty-five years in prison, two of the men on Death Row.