A nonprofit organization committed to criminal justice reform, the Innocence Project works to free those who have been wrongly convicted and incarcerated.
Family members of a slain woman and her daughter sat through a gruesome crime scene video that played in a Tennessee courtroom Monday — images... More
December 13, 2021
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Moments before a Tennessee judge freed him from death row, Pervis Payne walked into a courtroom, More
November 23, 2021
By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what More
November 23, 2021
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two... More
November 18, 2021
Two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are set to be cleared after more than half a century. More
November 17, 2021
Robert DuBoise was freed from prison in August 2020 after long-shelved, untested DNA evidence from a rape kit proved he was innocent. More
October 12, 2021
Jesse Johnson was accused of stabbing Harriet Thompson, a 28-year-old Black nurse’s aide, to death in her Salem home in 1998. More
October 7, 2021
Three men who were convicted of killing a woman in West Virginia 19 years ago were cleared of charges in the case after new DNA... More
October 6, 2021
Dennis Perry was convicted in 2003 largely on the testimony of his ex-girlfriend’s mother. More
July 20, 2021
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Eighteen-year-old Angie Dodge was raped and killed in her Idaho home a quarter-century ago and an More
June 14, 2021
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The effort to free Lamar Johnson, who has spent 26 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit,... More
March 3, 2021
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man has pleaded guilty to the 1996 rape and murder of Angie Dodge, a crime for which another... More
February 10, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The daughter of a Tennessee man executed 14 years ago for murder wants to test DNA evidence to prove his innocence.... More
February 4, 2021
By ROBIN McDOWELL and MARGIE MASON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Black man sent to prison for life as a teenager took his first... More
December 16, 2020
By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — After 37 years behind bars, a Florida man was formally cleared Monday of... More
September 14, 2020
By CURT ANDERSON and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press BOWLING GREEN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who spent the last 37 years in prison on... More
August 28, 2020
BY DAVID PORTER| ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey men who have served more than 20 years in prison for a double... More
December 31, 2019
BALTIMORE (AP) — Three men incarcerated for 36 years in Maryland were exonerated Monday in the slaying of a Baltimore teenager after a review of... More
November 26, 2019
HOUSTON (AP) — Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who is facing lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says... More
November 8, 2019
HONOLULU (AP) — Advocates for a former U.S. soldier convicted of the attempted rape and murder of an Army officer's son 37 years ago are... More
September 10, 2019
