Rickey Cummings was 21 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of a murder he says he didn’t commit and will die at the hands of the state unless he gets a fair trial. We need your help to save his life.

Rickey has lived on death row for almost 10 years and is held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. He is allowed one hour of sunlight a day, and three showers a week. Every minute we wait to take action, Rickey is suffering. Every second that goes by brings Rickey closer to being executed for a crime he didn’t commit. 

Rickeys’ attorneys did not adequately defend him, and explicit racial bias played a significant role in the process. It is also clear that despite having the evidence to prove his innocence and that the D.A. knowingly and intentionally violated Rickey’s constitutional rights during his trial. His trial included issues with:

• The State relied heavily on ‘circumstantial evidence’ throughout Rickey’s trial, neighborhood rumors that Rickey held Hubert responsible for the murder of his friend. Emuel Bowers that occurred in April 2010, and Rickey was seen in the Lakewood Villas, which is where his grandmother lived at the time, before and after the crime
• The District Attorneys’ presented evidence alleging that Rickey sent and deleted text messages that were interpreted as ‘admission of his guilt’. This was known by the state at the time to have not belonged to Rickey
• The State also presented photos and a rap video that Rickey was not in, as proof of his alleged gang ties, to an all-white jury
• Since the trial, both “witnesses” have recanted their statements and admitted coercion from the District Attorney and/or Detective [Reference: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, page 49; Affidavit of Michae’l Atkins, Witness].
• It is now known that then-District Attorneys’ Abel Reyna, Greg Davis, and Michael Jarrett knowingly used false testimony and evidence to convict Rickey and they used illegal post-indictment hearings before the trial began to spy on the defense team, threaten potential defense witnesses, and keep material evidence hidden. All of which was a violation of Rickey’s constitutional Rights

Since 1973, 185 people who were wrongfully convicted have been exonerated from Death Row in the United States. Just like them, Rickey is an innocent man forced to sit in solitary confinement, awaiting his death. 

Please join me and demand justice for Rickey.