In the U.S., the wrongfully convicted are often expected to prove their innocence through DNA, even though many crimes leave ...

With only five exonerations, lawmakers weigh bills that would update Delaware's DNA evidence practices, aligning the state ...

Delaware State Senator Kyra Hoffner (D-14) and Innocence Project Delaware have announced a suite of three reform bills that ...

Over the years, stories of wrongful convictions have peppered news reports - tragic stories of people sent to prison because of bad witnesses, bad evidence, bad attorneys, and even police misconduct.

The popular image of exonerations—fueled by any number of movies and TV criminal procedurals—is of a wrongly accused rapist set free after DNA testing reveals the real perpetrator. But as a new report ...

Since 1989, some 200 criminal convicts have been exonerated by DNA testing, some within days of execution. In 75 percent of those cases, the major flaw was eyewitness identification. Many of those ...

Forty-one Texans have now been exonerated of serious crimes, including rape and murder, on the basis of DNA evidence. That's the most in the nation. Some of them were on death row. The latest exoneree ...

Since 1989, there have been 261 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. These are cases where DNA evidence irrefutably showed that the convicted felon had not committed the offense and ...

Of the many things the first black district attorney of Dallas County is doing, none is more important than rethinking the concept of guilt and innocence.

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Advanced DNA testing has confirmed that human remains found nearly 50 years ago in Lee County were those of a man named Charles Howard Wallace, the Arkansas State Police announced on Friday. The ...