Sabrina Smith was only 17 when a predominately White Mississippi jury convicted her in 1989 for fatally beating her 9-month-old son. "The judge said, 'we sentence you to death by lethal injection. May ...

“I was expecting a lot of guilt,” writes death row investigator and ‘The Talking Bone’ author Rene Denfeld. “I did not expect ...

Every Thursday at 9 a.m. when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals publishes its orders and opinions online, Melissa Lucio’s family, supporters and lawyers scan the court’s website for the death row ...

When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has been condemned to die longer than almost anyone else. The state will also, ...

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RICHMOND, Va. AP - Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has issued an "absolute pardon" to a man who spent nearly a decade on death row and came within nine days of being executed for a murder he did not commit.The ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff's deputy, a killing he says he did not commit. Johnson’s attorneys asked the ...

One June day in 1983, a California professor drove over to a neighbor’s house to pick up his 11-year-old son from a sleepover. Nobody answered the door, so the professor peered through a window — and ...

This story was originally published by the Nashville Banner. Sign up for their newsletter at nashvillebanner.com/newsletters. Death row exonerees and innocence ...

On Jan. 16, 2004, Nick Yarris made history when he became the first person who had been sentenced to death in Pennsylvania and was exonerated through DNA evidence. In December 1981, Yarris was ...