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Jarvis Jay Masters (born February 24, 1962) is an American author and death row inmate at California's San Quentin State Prison. In 1990, Masters was convicted of fashioning a weapon that was used by another inmate in the 1985 murder of a prison guard at San Quentin, and sentenced to execution by lethal injection. Masters has maintained his innocence through his trial and sentencing, and through the California appeals process. In 2019, the California Supreme Court upheld Masters' conviction. Masters has presented new evidence of innocence to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as part of a federal appeal for exoneration. Reporting by The Los Angeles Times details what it describes as "discrepancies in the evidence" to convict Masters, including sworn re

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  • Jarvis Jay Masters (born February 24, 1962) is an American author and death row inmate at California's San Quentin State Prison. In 1990, Masters was convicted of fashioning a weapon that was used by another inmate in the 1985 murder of a prison guard at San Quentin, and sentenced to execution by lethal injection. Masters has maintained his innocence through his trial and sentencing, and through the California appeals process. In 2019, the California Supreme Court upheld Masters' conviction. Masters has presented new evidence of innocence to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as part of a federal appeal for exoneration. Reporting by The Los Angeles Times details what it describes as "discrepancies in the evidence" to convict Masters, including sworn re (en)
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  • Jarvis Jay Masters (born February 24, 1962) is an American author and death row inmate at California's San Quentin State Prison. In 1990, Masters was convicted of fashioning a weapon that was used by another inmate in the 1985 murder of a prison guard at San Quentin, and sentenced to execution by lethal injection. Masters has maintained his innocence through his trial and sentencing, and through the California appeals process. In 2019, the California Supreme Court upheld Masters' conviction. Masters has presented new evidence of innocence to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as part of a federal appeal for exoneration. Reporting by The Los Angeles Times details what it describes as "discrepancies in the evidence" to convict Masters, including sworn recantations from the state's original witnesses against Masters, an eyewitness description that does not match Masters, and that another inmate confessed to the crime. The trial jury never heard that confession because it was not disclosed to Masters’ attorneys during his original trial. Masters is the author of That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row, which was selected by Oprah Winfrey as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 2022. Winfrey stated her belief in Masters' innocence in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Masters is also author of Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke & Opened My Heart, as well as poems, short stories, articles, essays, and an op-ed in The Guardian newspaper. Masters is the subject of the book The Buddhist on Death Row by author David Sheff, the iHeart Radio two-season podcast Dear Governor, and an op-ed in the New York Times by author Rebecca Solnit. (en)
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