Case after case has exposed the continued unreliability of our capital punishment system, writes Innocence Project Executive ...

Sandra “Sandy” Hemme has spent more than four decades in prison for a crime that evidence supports she did not commit, making her the longest-known wrongly incarcerated woman in the U.S. Although Ms.

In the summer of 1985, Carolyn Muncey was found dead near her home in rural Luttrell, Tennessee. Dressed in a nightgown and house coat, her bloodied body was found under some brush on the bank of a ...

Ryan Matthews spent five years on Louisiana's death row for a crime he did not commit. Seventeen years old at the time he was arrested, Matthews was sentenced to death for the shooting death of Tommy ...

Officers from the New York Police Department’s 30th Precinct investigated the shooting. Carlos Jimenez told officers that he saw the shooting while playing dominoes and that the shooter ran into the ...

Norberto Peets spent 26 years incarcerated for a 1996 murder he did not commit. He was convicted based on mistaken witness identification in a case riddled with inconsistencies and faulty evidence.

Several hours later, B.S. regained consciousness, called a neighbor, and left a message on the answering machine that “someone killed my grandmother.” She then walked to another neighbor’s house and ...

At about 11 p.m. on Oct. 25, 1998, a 41-year-old woman was abducted by two men at gunpoint from her apartment parking lot in Houston, Texas. They forced her into her Ford Expedition and sexually ...

In the early hours of Feb. 1, 1986, a young woman exiting a Savannah, Georgia, nightclub was accosted by three men. They forced her into a car and drove her to a house. Two of the men forced her out ...

Archie Williams was exonerated in 2019 of attempted murder and rape in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had been convicted in 1983 at age 22 and sentenced to life without parole. Mr. Williams spent nearly ...

An exoneration occurs when a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on new evidence of innocence. This can occur through: A DNA exoneration occurs when a person who has ...

After the Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of actual innocence, Keith Allen Harward walked out of a Virginia prison on April 8, 2016, after wrongly serving more than 33 years of a life sentence ...