As we work to free Georgia's wrongly convicted, we remember the words of Dr. King: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

This Martin Luther King Day we join The Innocence Network to "stand united around the fundamental principle that truth is a prerequisite for justice & fairness."

On what would have been MLK's 92nd birthday, his oldest son reflects on the "severity and inequality" of a recent string of executions as the federal government plans to execute Dustin Higgs today, a Black man maintaining his innocence.

More than half of the 51 people on federal death row are people of color, including 22 Black men. As we've seen in Johnny Gates' case and so many others in Georgia, racism plays a major role in death penalty sentences at the state level as well.

"Over the past year, we have lost too many Black lives to police violence and a pandemic... The federal government should not be needlessly taking more Black lives, and to do so on my father’s birthday would be shameful."

A federal judge has halted Lisa Montgomery's execution scheduled for today. Though she would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 70 years, she shares much in common with the 87 people executed in the last 4 years.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, more than one-third had a brain injury or intellectual disability, while nearly two in five suffered severe mental illness and almost two-thirds experienced extensive trauma as children.

And at least 11 of the executed suffered from all three-just like Lisa Montgomery.