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

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 ...

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.

Wrongful convictions are often defined by numbers: the number of lives upended, the number of years unjustly served, and the number of systemic failures that allowed such injustices to occur. Reduced ...

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 September 2026, more than 20 years after she was arrested, Sheila Denton was exonerated of a murder in Waycross, Georgia. Ms. Denton had been wrongly convicted based on bite mark testimony that has ...

On March 10, Mr. Boles was arrested for an unrelated robbery of an 80-year-old man. Police began interrogating him about the murder of Mr. Reid. They questioned Mr. Boles for two days. During that ...

In November 2025, Danny Davis was exonerated of a 1992 murder of a 63-year-old woman in Cairo, Illinois after DNA testing of fingernail scrapings from the victim excluded him as well as two other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost a year after the crime was committed, Washington was arrested in nearby Fauquier County, for an alleged burglary and malicious wounding. After two days of questioning, police claimed he had ...

In 1985, Charles McCrory was wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife, Julie Bonds, in Andalusia, Alabama. Mr. McCrory only became a suspect because he and Ms. Bonds were separating. However, the ...