As the innocence community mourns the loss of Curtis Flowers, his legacy reminds us that the fight for criminal and racial ...

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

The following day, Alexandria Police Detective Barry Shiftic was assigned to investigate the crime. The victim described her assailant as a Black male who wore a gray sweatshirt, red shorts, and white ...

On Nov. 13, 1980, the body of Patricia Jeschke was found in the bedroom of her apartment on the east side of St. Joseph, Missouri. Ms. Jeschke was a secretary at the St. Joseph Public Library, and her ...

In the early morning hours of May 11, 1978, 28-year-old Lawrence Lionberg and 23-year-old Carol Schmal were abducted from a gas station where Mr. Lionberg worked in Homewood, Illinois, a southern ...

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 ...

Several hours later, B.S. regained consciousness, called a neighbor, and left a message on the answering machine that “someone killed my grandmother.” She then walked to another neighbor’s house and ...

At 2:15 p.m. on June 1, 1989, the body of 69-year-old Lula Mae Woods, the wife of a retired Chicago police officer, was found on the floor of her open garage on the south side of Chicago, Illinois.

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On the morning of Sept. 22, 1988, an 11-year-old girl, identified as R.D., reported to her mother that as she was waiting for the school bus in Dorchester, Massachusetts, she had been grabbed by a ...

On the afternoon of Dec. 8, 1981, a 17-year-old girl was changing clothes in her home in Canaveral Groves, Florida, when she was confronted and sexually assaulted by a man holding a utility knife.

On Dec. 20, 2017, nearly 30 years after Mark Denny was convicted at age 18 of the rape and robbery of a restaurant worker in Brooklyn, New York, he was declared factually innocent and released from ...