Judge tosses convictions of two men over killing of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was shot dead while beginning a speech on February 21, 1965. He was 39

Malcolm X (AP)

More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his convicted killers have been exonerated after decades of doubt about who was responsible for the civil rights leader’s death.

A Manhattan judge dismissed the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, after prosecutors and the men’s lawyers said a renewed investigation found new evidence that the men were not involved with the killing and determined that authorities withheld some of what they knew.