Robin “Rocky” Myers of Morgan County, Alabama, has spent more than three decades behind bars for a murder he maintains he did not commit. Despite questions surrounding the physical evidence, shifting witness accounts, and his original attorney’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan, his latest attempt to clear his name has been denied.
According to Atlanta Black Star, an Alabama judge rejected Myers’ request for a new trial on Aug. 28, leaving the 61-year-old Black man serving life without parole. What for: the 1991 killing of his white neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.
Myers was originally sentenced to death in 1994 before Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted his sentence to life without parole in 2025. Atlanta Black Star reports that Ivey, a Republican who supports capital punishment, cited uncertainty surrounding Myers’ guilt when she decided his execution should not proceed.
Now, Myers and his attorneys are continuing to challenge a conviction they argue was built without physical evidence connecting him to Tucker’s murder.
“I’ve been locked up in one cell for 31 years. I don’t want to be inside no more,” Myers said. “I want to be free.”
Source: Black Alabama Man Challenges His Murder Conviction After His Trial Attorney’s KKK Ties Surface
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