Greenwood / Atmore / Orlando / Monroeville / Repton / Baltimore / New York / Groveland / East Brewton / Montgomery / /
Company
New York Post / Sentinel / New York Times / The Villages Daily Sun / Orlando Sentinel / Seattle Times / St. Petersburg Times / /
Country
United States / /
Event
Judicial Event / Person Travel / /
Facility
Northwestern University / Duke University / Holman State Prison / /
IndustryTerm
law enforcers / law enforcement authority / paternalistic law enforcement authorities / law enforcement people / local media / communications arm / Alabama law / /
Movie
To Kill a Mockingbird / /
Organization
Duke University / Ku Klux Klan / American University / U.S. Supreme Court / Northwestern University / paper’s Lake County bureau / /
Person
Tommy / Vickie Lynn Pittman / Ormond Powers / Martin Andersen / Leroy Collins / Kirk Bloodsworth / Samuel Shepherd / Tate / Ernest Thomas / Paul Henderson / Willis McCall / E. Lee Key / Robert E. Lee / Dixie Mafia / Corsair / Norman Bunin / Norris Reese / Norma Padgett / Bill Dailey / Ronda Morrison / Rick Scott / Charles Greenlee / Alvin Benn / Willie Padgett / Harper Lee / Ted Poston / Robert H. Jackson / David J. Krajicek / Ramona Love / Gilbert King / Bryan Stevenson / Walter McMillian / Jesse Hunter / Walter Irwin / Sara Sun Beale / Jon Gould / Ralph Myers / Mabel Norris Reese / challenging Sheriff McCall / /
Position
County Sheriff / prosecutor / executive director / drug dealer / law professor / prosecutor and sheriff / clerk / player / local police chief / Author / king / black journalist / Negro fortune teller / electric chair / editor / director of the Equal Justice Initiative / young reporter / officer / Governor / copy editor / journalist / white racist Southern sheriff / reporter / judge / Sheriff / editor in Florida / Lake County Sheriff / longtime central journalist / /
ProvinceOrState
Madison County / Monroe / Alabama / Lake County / Mississippi / Georgia / Escambia / Florida / /
PublishedMedium
the St. Petersburg Times / the Seattle Times / the Chicago Defender / New York Times / the Orlando Sentinel / The Monroe County Journal / the Monroe Journal / the Montgomery Advertiser / Life Magazine / the Sentinel / the New York Post / the St. Pete Times / /
The Media’s Role in Wrongful Convictions How ‘mob journalism’ and media ‘tunnel vision’ turn journalists into tools of the prosecution Three Case Studies