Who Killed Malcolm X? posits that two of the three men convicted in Malcolm X's assassination were innocent
. It posits that two of the three men convicted of the crime were innocent, and were not even present when the civil rights activist was fatally shot while giving a speech in New York City’s Audubon Ballroom.
The Office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will work on the reinvestigation with The Innocence Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people,“District Attorney Vance has met with representatives from the Innocence Project and associated counsel regarding this matter,” DA spokesman Danny Frost said in a statement.
Three men were convicted of the crime: Mujahid Abdul Halim , Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam . All were sentenced to life in prison.for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. CNN reports Islam and Aziz have always maintained their innocence, and Halim, who admitted to his role in the crime, backed up their claims, saying at his 1966 trial the two men “had nothing to do with it.
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