Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Chicago Innocence Project founder remembers Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter as visionary

April 23, 2014

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the vice president of the Chicago Innocence Project and the man at the center of one of the most famous wrongful conviction cases in the U.S., died Sunday from prostate cancer.  Carter...

Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three and his wife Lorris Davis talk to students on Tuesday about his release from prison after being on death row for 18 years. Echols was convicted of murdering three children in 1993 and sentenced to death three times.

Former death row inmate shares experience at NCDC, Peace Project event

November 14, 2012

Damien Echols, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and subsequently released from death row, spoke Tuesday at Northwestern about his experience and advocated for a more humanitarian justice system. About...

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