Articles about Innocence

It started in 1993, when three 8-year-old boys were found murdered and seemingly mutilated in West Memphis, Arkansas.

Derek Tice was officially exonerated last week after serving 11 years in prison for the rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko in Norfolk, Virginia.

Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis could be receiving an execution date as early as this September.

Texas’ Attorney General issued an opinion Friday that may effectively halt the state’s examination into the forensic practices in the Cameron Todd Willingham case.

Earlier this month Virginia District Court Judge Raymond Jackson reversed the conviction and death sentence of Justin Wolfe.

Signing a death warrant for someone who might be innocent and then trying to keep the word from getting out might not look so good when you run for president.

Last week Governor John Kasich commuted the sentence of death row inmate Shawn Hawkins to life imprisonment.

Shawn Hawkins was 21 when he was sentenced to die for a double-murder in Ohio.

The second screening of Michael Collins’ feature length documentary, Give Up Tomorrow, was held last week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Last week Troy Davis’ appeal to the Supreme Court was denied. Davis has been on death row for two decades for a murder he may not have committed.