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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 69-year-old man has been exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for second-degree murder. Cooley Law School's Innocence ...

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 ...

It had to be expected. Thirteen DNA exonerations in Dallas County in recent years; 13 men declared actually innocent by a criminal justice system reluctant to admit its mistakes. It seemed just a ...

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 ...

A potential DNA exoneration An Arapahoe County jury convicted Jamale D. Townsell of entering a bank in June 2013, demanding money at gunpoint and fleeing with $1,100 in cash in less than 30 seconds.

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 ...

Cassandra Rivera, left, Kristie Mayhugh, center, and Elizabeth Ramirez, right, walk with two of their lawyers after they held a news conference with their lawyers on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, in San ...

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 ...