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 ...

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 ...

A wrongfully convicted person shall receive a maximum of $1 million, as well as the potential for physical and emotional services, educational services at any state or community college, and ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curtis Edward McCarty was exonerated in 2007 after serving 21 years — including 19 years on death row — for a 1982 Oklahoma City murder he didn’t commit. On December 10, 1982, 18-year-old Pamela Kaye ...