The Scott sisters' life sentence for robbery has been overturned, with the condition that Gladys Scott must give a kidney to her sister Jamie.
In 1994, two African-American sisters, Jamie and Gladys Scott, were accused of masterminding a roadside robbery. The amount of money stolen was reportedly just $11—but incredibly, the sisters were given life in prison.
“The incident itself was not racial in any way, but the way it was handled had a racial prism to it,” their lawyer, Chokwe Lumumba, told ABC News. “Two white girls would have no way gotten two life sentences.”
There’s always been wide skepticism about whether the sisters were even guilty in the first place, and the ACLU has called their imprisonment a “grave miscarriage of justice.”
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