The Voice
TWO MEN convicted of killing Malcolm X are to be exonerated today, after 55 years.
Manhattan’s district attorney and the lawyers announced yesterday, they will be asking a court to throw out convictions of two of the three men convicted of murdering the prolific civil rights leader in 1965.
According to the New York Times, prosecutors are saying following a lengthy 22-month investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York Police Department (NYPD), withheld crucial evidence during the trial of Muhammad Aziz, now 83 and the late Khalil Islam.
The prosecutors believe if the evidence had been handed in, it would have resulted in the men’s acquittal.
Malcolm X was murdered on 21 February 1965, as he gave a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, when three men shot him multiple times…
