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.

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 ...

In July 2022, more than 33 years after Leroy Harris was convicted of sexual assault and robbery in New Haven, Connecticut, he was granted an absolute pardon. In the early morning hours of May 21, 1983 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of June 17, 2004, 47-year-old Cheryl Williams and 68-year-old Carol Bareis were found stabbed to death in their home at 121 Vagabond Way in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Mark Van Sandt ...

At about 5 a.m. on Oct. 2, 1977, a woman was awakened by two men, one armed with a knife, in the second-floor bedroom of her apartment in Memphis, Tennessee. The woman told police that the man with a ...

In the early morning hours of March 9, 1983, a woman in her 20s was raped in her home in Clayton County in the city of College Park, Georgia. Afterwards, the attacker stole around thirty dollars and ...