The Innocence Project ? which attempts to exonerate wrongfully convicted people through DNA evidence ? is expected to a hit a milestone this month when lawyers announce their 200th exoneration ...

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 Innocence Project used to track all DNA exonerations throughout the country. An exoneration clears a convicted person of blameworthiness. Now they track all "Innocence Project successes," which ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2012 marks the 10th anniversary of Culture Project’s New York premiere of The Exonerated, a ground breaking dramatization of the real-life stories of six individuals who were sentenced to death and ...

Justice, it seems, has an expiration date. Luis Diaz last month became one of a handful of Florida prisoners–and one of 99 nationwide–exonerated by DNA testing since 2000. But the 2001 statute that ...

(Reuters) - Following are some facts and figures about DNA exonerations in the United States. -- There have been 218 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. Of these 156 have occurred ...

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 ...