Trump’s V.P. Pick Mike Pence Refuses to Pardon Exonerated Black Man

When the government wrongfully convicts a defendant, it has a responsibility to do everything within its power to make that person whole. The government cannot make up for the years an exonerated person spent wrongfully imprisoned, but a pardon is certainly within a governor’s power. It is therefore mind boggling that the man presidential hopeful Donald Trump tapped to be his vice president, Mike Pence, has been blocking an innocent man’s pardon for two years.

Keith Cooper was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery and attempted murder. Although Cooper is out of jail, he still has a record that can’t be cleared unless Gov. Mike Pence agrees to pardon him. For the past two years, Pence has refused to do so.

“I’m tired of people judging me by that conviction. That [Department of Correction] number. That’s not who I am,” Cooper told BuzzFeed. “Man, I know that better than my own Social Security number.” 

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Source: Your Black World News