On Friday, an NBC Dateline special takes a look at the story of Corey Atchison and Malcolm Scott, two Tulsa brothers wrongfully convicted of two separate murders, and who were both serving life sentences for crimes they say they did not commit.
His brother, Malcolm Scott, was released in 2017 from a Tulsa jail, 20 years into a life sentence for the shooting death of a 19-year-old Black woman named Karen Summers.
Though Scott and Atchison’s stories were prominently featured in The Washington Post, ABC News, and local papers, the Dateline special is the first time these North Tulsa natives are speaking out on national television.
Atchison and Scott, unfortunately, had all of these factors going against Scott talks to Dateline reporter Craig Melvin about his wrongful conviction and fighting to help get his brother Corey Atchison released from jail.
In Tulsa, alone, attorneys working to free wrongfully convicted men and women, say there are more than a hundred cases that read much like Atchison and Scott’s.
