Innocence Project

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two groups sued a central Arkansas city on Thursday seeking the release of evidence they say could exonerate an inmate who was executed nearly three years ago. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Innocence Project asked a state judge to order Jacksonville authorities to release fingerprint tests and DNA […]

Cedric Willis had every reason to live. In 1994, when he was 19, the Mississippi man was wrongfully convicted in a rape and murder case, though the witness couldn’t even agree on the details of the crime. Willis would ultimately spend 12 years in jail and like so many other wrongfully convicted men, he’d do some […]

  CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox have welcomed back a former groundskeeper who spent 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The Chicago Tribune reports that DNA evidence led prosecutors last year to vacate the conviction of 49-year-old Nevest Coleman. He’d been convicted in a 1994 rape and murder. The […]

A judge threw out the wrongful conviction of Lamar Johnson after three new witnesses came forward to say he was not the gunman.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Leander Wilson, a broad smile on his face and no bitterness in his heart, clasped hands with his family on his first day of freedom Thursday after spending 32 years in prison for a murder he denied committing. Wilson, 62, was released from the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail […]