A person spending years, decades or life in prison for a crime they did not commit may seem unimaginable, however, for many it is a reality. Jamie Ellsworth, a lawyer with The Idaho Innocence ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — What happens when an innocent man goes to prison for a crime he did not commit? Glynn Simmons was convicted of murder in 1975. He was sentenced to death for a killing that ...
For the ninth consecutive year, fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States in 2023 and fewer than 50 were ...
Wayne Gardine and Jabar Walker, both 49, were convicted of separate murders in the 1990s and spent more than 20 years in prison.
Death is the one punishment that can never be undone. Imagine, if you will, what it would be like to be arrested for a crime you did not commit, given a death sentence, and found innocent fifteen ...
NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana declined to find a former homicide detective enjoys immunity on an exonerated suspect’s claims that he fabricated the suspect’s “coerced confessions” to the ...
Two brothers were expected to get a certificate of innocence on Monday after being exonerated for a murder they did not commit, only to find out they'll have to wait even longer. The ...
An exonerated man walked free on Monday night more than a decade after he was wrongfully convicted for a Philadelphia murder, officials said. David Sparks, then 16, was initially picked up by ...
A Philadelphia man was exonerated Monday after serving 17 years behind bars in connection with a 2006 murder. David Sparks, 34, ... and Simmons was shot and killed in December 2016, the DAO said.
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released their annual report on Friday, reporting that for the first time more Americans believe the death penalty is administered unfairly than those who ...
