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Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (October 27, 1941 – September 11, 2013) was a pulpwood worker from Monroeville, Alabama, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. His conviction was wrongfully obtained, based on police coercion and perjury.
Walter McMillian, who is Black, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a young white woman who worked as a clerk in a dry cleaning store in Monroeville, Alabama. Mr. McMillian was held on death row prior to being convicted and sentenced to death. His trial lasted only a day and a half.
McMillian’s conviction and death sentence were affirmed on appeal in 1991. His attorneys, including Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, filed a petition for new trial alleging various constitutional violations.
Dec 2, 2019 · Walter McMillian was sentenced to death in 1988 for murdering Ronda Morrison in Monroeville, Alabama — despite zero physical evidence. After McMillian was exonerated, a reporter asked him if his release restored his faith in the criminal justice system.
Oct 24, 2019 · Oct. 24, 2019, 11:13 AM PDT. By Variety. Social justice activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson has done a lot in his 59 years on this earth. He’s argued and won cases before the U.S. Supreme Court....
He was interrogated about Ronda Morrison’s murder and eventually stated that Walter McMillian, a 46-year-old black man from Monroe County, had killed Ronda. Two other witnessed corroborated parts of Myers’s story. McMillian was reputed to be a marijuana dealer and was dating a white woman from the area.
Oct 4, 2020 · In August 1988, a black man named Walter McMillian, known as Johnny D, was sentenced to death for the murder of a white teenage girl in Monroeville, Alabama. His trial lasted less than two days. Mr McMillian was with his family miles away when Ronda Morrison was killed. But it didn't matter.
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