Martin Hodgson is a Yuin man, activist and writer who works on death penalty and human rights cases from all around the world, all from his home in Bega, south-east New South Wales. He joins Amy McQuire to discuss a recent case he has been working on – that of Rodney Reed, an African American man on death row in Texas, convicted about 20 years ago for the murder of a white woman. But DNA and forensic evidence points to his innocence, and that there may be another alleged perpetrator – the woman’s fiance, who was a police officer at the time and is currently serving a prison sentence for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman who he assaulted while on duty.
Martin discusses the ins and outs of the case, and talks about his concerns that there may be innocent Aboriginal people in jail in our own country, and how this helps drive him in his work.
For more, see his website, and also his work at the Foreign Prisoners Support Service.