Justice

She shows up

This is Khaliah Ali's work, told from her side. Alongside her husband Jason Flom, she has taken up the cases of people she believes were wrongfully convicted — travelling to prisons, standing in front of cameras, and asking governors and courts to look again. In October 2024, days after their wedding, the two of them were honoured together for it, and the announcement said plainly that they are working closely on wrongful-conviction cases across the country (GlobeNewswire, October 28, 2024). Two cases carry her name most publicly.

Robert Roberson — Texas

Robert Roberson has spent more than twenty years on Texas death row. His conviction rested on a shaken-baby diagnosis that his lawyers, and a growing body of medical opinion, say does not explain his daughter's death — they say she died of pneumonia that was missed. Khaliah and Jason planned, straight after their October 2024 wedding, to travel to Texas to advocate for him ahead of the execution date then set for October 17, 2024, and they directed their wedding gifts to After Innocence, which supports exonerees rebuilding their lives (PEOPLE, October 2024).

Status as of November 2026 Still on death row; not exonerated; no new execution date. On October 9, 2025, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed his execution and sent his changed-science claim back to the trial court under its Ex parte Roark precedent. Proceedings on remand continued through 2026, and in October 2026 his lead counsel pressed the trial court to hold a full evidentiary hearing.

What you can do: add your name to the Innocence Project's petition for Robert Roberson, and read the Innocence Project's own case page. Support goes to his case and its campaign directly — this tribute collects nothing.

Follow the case: Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty — Roberson · Texas Court of Criminal Appeals order (PDF) · Wrongful Conviction podcast — episode profile of Roberson's case

Temujin Kensu — Michigan

Temujin Kensu has been in a Michigan prison since the 1980s for a murder his advocates say he could not have committed — at the time of the shooting he was hundreds of miles away, with witnesses and receipts. On May 23, 2023, Khaliah visited him at Macomb Correctional Facility; the next day she was in Ann Arbor speaking publicly for his clemency (Justice For All Magazine; Fox 2 Detroit was among the outlets covering her campaign).

Status as of November 2026 Still incarcerated. In the words this page will stand behind: his clemency campaign continues; the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic still lists his case as pending.

What you can do: the clemency campaign's own call is to write to Governor Whitmer — the campaign's action page is temujinkensu.info, and the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic case page below is where his lawyers present the case. Support goes to his case and its campaign directly — this tribute collects nothing.

Follow the case: University of Michigan Innocence Clinic — Kensu · Justice For All Magazine on her visit

Standing Together

Khaliah's justice work does not stand alone — it stands alongside her husband's. Jason Flom hosts Wrongful Conviction, the long-running podcast that has carried the stories of people fighting wrongful convictions to more than 50 million downloads. A companion tribute site now profiles every case the show has covered.

His archive, beside hers: browse the Wrongful Conviction episode archive — all 598 case profiles, including the case of Robert Roberson above. Two tributes, built independently, for two people who do this work together.

That archive is an unofficial fan tribute too — not affiliated with Jason Flom, Lava for Good, or the podcast.

The wider circle of her justice work — including her documented role as Board President of Witness to Mass Incarceration (2024) — is on the Causes page. This site takes no position a court has not taken: where a case is unresolved, it says so, with the date.