Outspoken human and civil rights activist Malcolm X was murdered in February 1965 while preparing for a speech in Manhattan, New York; three men were arrested for his assassination and spent the next few decades in prison. However, two of those men always maintained their innocence, and the third man who pleaded guilty admitted the other two had nothing to do with the plot or act of killing Malcolm X. Nearly six decades later, in November 2021, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office exonerated Muhammad Abdul Aziz (formerly Norman Butler) and Khalil Islam (formerly Thomas Johnson) for the murder of Malcolm X stating they had been wrongly convicted following a lengthy 22-month investigation. Should the case into the murder of Malcolm X be reopened?