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 ...

Sandra “Sandy” Hemme has spent more than four decades in prison for a crime that evidence supports she did not commit, making her the longest-known wrongly incarcerated woman in the U.S. Although Ms.

(April 13, 2026 — Grand Junction, CO) Today, the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office dismissed the double murder charges against James “Jimmy” Genrich’s related to a series of pipe bombings that ...

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 noon on November 29, 1988, a 74-year-old woman was taking her daily walk along an abandoned railroad bed in Rochester, NY, when she was shot twice in the head with a BB gun, struck with a ...

Ryan Matthews spent five years on Louisiana's death row for a crime he did not commit. Seventeen years old at the time he was arrested, Matthews was sentenced to death for the shooting death of Tommy ...

In the summer of 1985, Carolyn Muncey was found dead near her home in rural Luttrell, Tennessee. Dressed in a nightgown and house coat, her bloodied body was found under some brush on the bank of a ...

Archie Williams was exonerated in 2019 of attempted murder and rape in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had been convicted in 1983 at age 22 and sentenced to life without parole. Mr. Williams spent nearly ...

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.

In the early hours of Feb. 1, 1986, a young woman exiting a Savannah, Georgia, nightclub was accosted by three men. They forced her into a car and drove her to a house. Two of the men forced her out ...

(May 24, 2023 – Dallas, TX) Tyrone Day, one of the Innocence Project’s longest-standing clients, was exonerated today after the Dallas County District Attorney dismissed a 1990 sexual assault charge ...