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

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.

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 ...

This fall, the Innocence Project is revamping one of its popular programs to mark the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Week from October 25-31. The week recognizes the importance of pro bono, or ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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

Tonight, Missouri executed an innocent man. Our hearts are with the family and friends of Marcellus Williams and Felicia Gayle, who have suffered unimaginable loss and trauma. Mr. Williams’ story ...