It is so easy to schedule an execution for an innocent man on death row. And it is incredibly hard, under the law in place in so much of the United States, to reopen the case of a person who has shown ...

The Colorado Supreme Court announced this month it will hear appeals in four cases, including one that questions the level of detail a convicted defendant must provide when asserting the existence of ...

DALLAS -- In a case that has renewed questions about the quality of Texas justice, a man who spent 10 years behind bars for the rape of a boy has become the 12th person in Dallas County to be cleared ...

A Michigan House bill has been introduced in the legislature that would expand DNA testing post-guilty convictions.

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — The University of Arizona just received $1.5 million from the Department of Justice to help find and free people wrongfully convicted of a crime, specifically through DNA ...

Over his 34 years in prison, Shawn Tanner always maintained he was not guilty of murder, insisting on his innocence right up until his death in 2022. Now a years-long legal battle will grant his final ...

Since 1989, some 200 criminal convicts have been exonerated by DNA testing, some within days of execution. In 75 percent of those cases, the major flaw was eyewitness identification. Many of those ...

The popular image of exonerations—fueled by any number of movies and TV criminal procedurals—is of a wrongly accused rapist set free after DNA testing reveals the real perpetrator. But as a new report ...

The testimony of two shady informants put him on death row, despite a bloody shoe print and hairs from another man at the scene. Courtesy of Marcellus Williams’ legal team It is so easy to schedule an ...