Carissa Wyant

Carissa Wyant is a former MintPress columnist specializing in faith, race and social justice issues. She has been published in the Huffington Post, Patch.com, American City Business Journals and various local publications around the American Midwest.

Tensions mount following assassinations in Iran

  (MintPress)–Mourners lined the street of Tehran Friday, after Iranian nuclear-scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was killed Wednesday. The 32-year old, who worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and the driver of his car were killed by a magnetic car bomb, and his wife was injured. The incident marks the third time in recent years in […]

Carissa Wyant
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Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan and his son

  (MintPress)--Mourners lined the street of Tehran Friday, after Iranian nuclear-scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was killed Wednesday. The 32-year old, who worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and the driver of his car were killed by a magnetic car bomb, and his wife was injured. The incident marks the third time in recent

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Rising Rate of Prisoner Exoneration Reveals flaws in US Justice System

If only one percent of the over 2 million Americans behind bars were innocent, that would mean 20,000 people are currently serving prison sentences for crimes that they did not commit.

Carissa Wyant
By Carissa Wyant
Ricky Dale Wyatt feature photo

While the maxim “it’s better that 10 guilty persons go free rather than one innocent person suffer” is one which pervades the ideology behind the US criminal justice system, recent cases of innocent people being exonerated in the U.S. reveal unnerving flaws in the system itself. In 1980, Ricky Dale Wyatt, a 25-year-old African American man, was

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