How to Protect Black and Brown Lives in the Age of AI
If Congress were to enact human-rights centered data privacy legislation, and guardrails and prohibitions on certain facial recognition technologies, a future with fair and equitable technology might be within reach.
International Wrongful Conviction Day is Nothing to Celebrate
What does a person who's spent more than two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit do on International Wrongful Conviction Day?
Amanda Knox Hopes to 'Welcome' Melissa Lucio to Her 'Exoneree Family'
Lucio, who was convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter after the infant fell down the stairs, is set to be executed next week.
Man Wrongly Jailed For Almost Half A Century Dies Months After Exoneration
Isaiah Andrews was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his wife Regina who died in 1974.
Willie Stokes Files Suit Against Philadelphia After 37 Years in Prison
"I didn't believe that they would let something like that happen — that they knew, and they didn't tell me," Willie Stokes said about the false testimony.
Man Exonerated After Victim Recants Story Eligible for $900K from Kansas
A man who was wrongfully convicted of sex crimes and imprisoned for more than 13 years could receive over $887,000 in compensation.
How 'The Amazing Race' Contestant Ryan Ferguson was Wrongfully Imprisoned
Ryan Ferguson is a contestant on "The Amazing Race" Season 33, but he was in the public eye long before that when he was convicted of a murder he didn't commit.
Kevin Strickland Receives Wave of Donations After Triple Murder Exoneration
Kevin Strickland is not eligible for compensation from Missouri after his 42 years in prison because his conviction was not overturned with DNA evidence.
Kevin Strickland, Convicted of Triple Murder, Exonerated After 40 Years
Strickland, who was convicted in 1979, has long maintained he was home watching television on the night of the murders.
Man Wants Exoneration in Triple Murder, Prosecutor Sees Wrongful Conviction
Attorneys for Kevin Strickland will argue his case in an evidentiary hearing after legal procedures and canceled hearings resulted in months of delays.
Prosecutors Reach $2M Settlement With Man Who Wrongfully Served 23 Years
"I welcome this measure of justice after so many years," said Robert Jones, 48, community outreach director for Orleans Public Defenders.
Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for 19 Years to Receive $11M From New York City
The Bronx man is getting the payout after a coerced confession and wrongful conviction for his mother's murder.
Man Wrongfully Jailed for Over a Year Billed $4,000 for His Incarceration
When an innocent man was finally freed after a year in prison, he was shocked to receive a bill for his "stay" at the facilities.
The Biothriller That Wasn't: A Cautionary Tale of Being a Virologist
Dr. Ilaria Capua's story and the race to find a coronavirus vaccine both illustrate how important open science is, but also how easily things can go wrong, either because the science is misunderstood—or because people are actually acting outside the contours of the law.
NJ Agrees to Compensate Man Wrongly Convicted of Rape After 2-Year Fight
Harrell was imprisoned for four years and spent over two decades as a registered sexual offender because of being wrongfully convicted on a 1988 charge of raping a 17-year-old girl in a parking lot.
Klobuchar Returns Donation from Central Park 5 Prosecutor Linda Fairstein
Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the events into a limited-run series for Netflix is credited with catalyzing the most recent examination of Fairstein's record.
20th Person Believed to be Framed by Retired Chicago Detective Exonerated
Demetrius Johnson has become the twentieth person exonerated of a crime for which he was allegedly framed by a retired police detective from Chicago, Reynaldo Guevara.
Man Wrongly Jailed for Murder Exonerated After 27 Years
"I didn't deserve any of that stuff that you all did to me," John Bunn said.
Talking 'Final Appeal' With Its Stars
"I can give voice to people who, for the entire time they've been in prison, felt that they've had no voice," said host Brian Banks.
Report Finds a Record Number of Exonerations in 2015
The state with the highest number of exonerations was Texas, with 54, followed by New York with 17 and Illinois with 13.
The End of Eyewitness Testimonies
As science seeps into the courtroom, memory-as-evidence fades into the background.
Video Pleads for Amir Hekmati's Release From Iranian Prison
#FreeAmir campaign posts new video and heightens efforts to bring former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati home as Iranian delegation arrives in New York
Texas May Have Executed an Innocent Man
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 on the basis of testimony which has been recanted
Strangers Raise Thousands for Man Who Wrongly Spent 25 Years in Prison
Convicted of a murder in Brooklyn that happened when he was at Walt Disney World, Jonathan Fleming is a free man, but he is broke and jobless