Former Florida death row inmates to ask Donalds to pause executions
Florida exonerees with 26 combined years on death row want the incoming governor to pause executions. Byron Donalds said he supports the death penalty.
9 November 2026
Wrongful Convictions
104 stories
New Haven committee recommends borrowing $17.5M for wrongful conviction settlement
New Haven's Board of Alders Finance Committee favorably recommended bonding up to $17.5 million to pay a wrongful conviction settlement to resident Adam Carmon.
9 November 2026
Judge steps away from case involving man D.A. says was wrongly convicted
Judge Lee Coffee has recused himself in the case of Andrew Hayes, a man Memphis prosecutors say may have served years for a murder he didn’t commit.
6 November 2026
What is the Court of Appeal actually for?
The criminal Court of Appeal is “a court of law, not a court of justice”. Stephen Phelps argues it has become too restrictive to catch wrongful convictions.
5 November 2026
Marvin Anderson: 210 years, and a lab notebook nobody threw away
Convicted at 18 on a rigged photo array, refused a new trial after the real attacker confessed, cleared only because evidence survived by accident.
3 November 2026
After 17 Years in Prison, Innocence Project Client is Exonerated
John Anthony Holmes spent more than 17 years in Virginia prisons before the Court of Appeals vacated all eight of his convictions after his daughters recanted.
2 November 2026
Making a Murderer's Steven Avery's dad dies as he keeps fighting prison sentence
Allan Avery, the father of Making a Murderer's Steven Avery, has died at the age of 89 - and he continued to be son's 'strongest supporter' right up until the end
2 November 2026
After 44 years in prison, New Mexico man exonerated of 1982 rape and murder conviction
Carl Case was 19 when he was sentenced to life for the 1982 rape and murder of a teenage girl. After 44 years behind bars, a judge has ruled him innocent.
30 October 2026
After his exoneration, Jarrett Adams (JD '15) seeks justice for others
After serving nearly 10 years in prison for a crime a federal court found he didn’t commit, Jarrett Adams (JD ’15) is fighting for the wrongfully convicted.
30 October 2026
The White House Farm massacre phone calls: could a single disputed digit set Jeremy Bamber free?
He has been in prison for 41 years for killing five members of his family. But if a phone call was made to the police by Bamber’s father on the night of the murders – as his team believes – one of the UK’s most notorious criminals could be exonerated
30 October 2026
Missouri Passed a Law to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted. Now It Doesn’t Want to Pay.
Based on a new law, two men are seeking $2.4 million for their combined 38 years in prison. But Missouri doesn’t want to pay them for their lost time.
29 October 2026
Glynn Simmons dies after spending 48 years in prison for crime he didn't commit
The Oklahoma man, who was exonerated in 2023 after nearly five decades behind bars, died following a battle with cancer.
28 October 2026
Family of man exonerated 74 years after he was executed to receive case review documents
Gleeson, who was hanged in 1941, received Ireland’s first posthumous pardon in 2015.
28 October 2026
The Window on Death Row Screening & Q+A (Daytona Beach)
A screening of The Window on Death Row, about Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard exonerated from U.S. death row, with a Q&A, in Daytona Beach on 21 November.
28 October 2026
Her Best Friend Was 8 Years Old When She Was Murdered in 1969 and the Case Ran Cold; The Lead That Busted It Wide Open 20 Years Later Put Memory on Trial
Eileen Franklin's best friend’s murder went cold. A recovered childhood memory put her father in prison — no physical evidence. Then the memory went on trial.
27 October 2026
Are the scales of justice still balanced in Scotland?
Douglas McConnell fears there are now fewer safeguards to protect against wrongful convictions in criminal trials.
26 October 2026
Did the courts get a high-profile Boston murder case wrong?
New questions emerge about a fire that killed two girls — and transfixed the region.
26 October 2026
Man wrongfully convicted by judicial candidate speaks out
Corey Williams, sentenced to death at 16 and later released after 20 years, says judicial candidate Hugo Holland should not be on the bench after judges found he withheld evidence in death penalty cases.
26 October 2026
The White House Farm massacre – new forensic evidence suggests Sheila Caffell killed herself. Is Jeremy Bamber innocent?
In 1985, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him.
23 October 2026
Jury awards James Lucien $3M in suit against ex-Boston police detective Brazil
A federal jury awarded James Lucien $3 million against former Boston police detective John Brazil in a wrongful conviction case. He has another suit pending.
21 October 2026
Ohio man exonerated after 39 years raises concerns about wrongful convictions and death penalty
The exoneration of Rickey Jackson, after 39 years of incarceration for a wrongful conviction, has prompted scrutiny of Ohio's capital punishment system over irreversible judicial error.
20 October 2026
Wrongful conviction overturned for Haywood man who was falsely accused
District Attorney Ashley Welch took the incredibly rare step this week of overturning a prior conviction against a man now known to be innocent.
17 October 2026
Bone Valley, The Prosecutors and the case of Leo Schofield
Two former federal prosecutors set out to debunk an innocence claim and concluded the opposite. Gilbert King, Leo Schofield and The Prosecutors, in conversation.
16 October 2026
Cooley Innocence Project Celebrates 25 Years of Fighting Wrongful Convictions
Cooley Law School marked the 25th anniversary of the Cooley Innocence Project, Michigan's only post-conviction DNA innocence organization, with a gala bringing together exonerees, students and advocates including Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez and Dan Slepian.
15 October 2026
Exonerated Elkhart County man sues after serving 27 years in prison for 1998 murder
Reggie Dillard, exonerated in February after 27 years in prison for the 1998 killing of Christopher Thomas, is suing the city of Elkhart, its police officers and county prosecutors, alleging they conspired to frame him.
15 October 2026
10 wrongful convictions in American history — and what freed them
10 wrongful convictions in American history, from false confessions to mistaken eyewitnesses, and the evidence that finally freed each man
14 October 2026
A call I should never have taken on LBC exposed a corrupt policeman and overturned 15 convictions, writes Daniel Barnett
A piece of advice given during an LBC phone-in helped set in motion a chain of events that has seen 15 men's convictions overturned over the actions of a corrupt police detective, with further cases still under investigation.
13 October 2026
Anti-death penalty advocates rally at Texas Capitol, calling for end to executions
Exonerated former death row inmates and families joined a rally at the Texas State Capitol, warning that the justice system risks executing innocent people.
10 October 2026
Documentary tells story of exonerated death row inmate
A documentary about Joaquin Jose Martinez, the first Spaniard exonerated from death row in the United States after his former wife's allegation sent him there, will be screened at the Utah Film Center.
9 October 2026
Mississippi man exonerated after six trials in quadruple murder case dies at 56
Curtis Flowers, who spent more than 22 years in prison and was tried six times for the 1996 Tardy Furniture murders before the charges were dropped, has died at 56.
9 October 2026
Ex-Deutsche Bank trader jailed for rigging rates has conviction overturned
The Court of Appeal quashes the conviction of Christian Bittar, a former Deutsche Bank trader jailed in 2018.
9 October 2026
It’s Time to ‘Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death’
Fifty years after the US reinstated the death penalty, Innocence Project director Christina Swarns argues that case after case has exposed its unreliability, and that a Justice Department plan to fast-track death-row appeals raises the risk of executing the innocent.
8 October 2026
‘How do you fix 28 years of somebody’s life wrongly taken away?’
Justin Plummer, who spent 28 years in prison after being wrongly convicted twice of a 1998 murder, gives his first television interview to Will Mellor for the Crime+Investigation series Convictions Gone Bad.
7 October 2026
Woman gets $29.5M settlement after jurors found Las Vegas police misconduct, attorney says
Kirstin “Blaise” Lobato has received a $29.5 million settlement from Las Vegas Metro after a federal jury found detectives fabricated evidence that put her behind bars for more than 15 years over a 2001 killing.
5 October 2026
Chris Rock Regrets Not Helping Childhood Best Friend’s Brother Who Spent 17 Years In Prison For Wrongful Murder Conviction: ‘It Still F**ks With Me, I Had The Means To Help Him And I Didn’t’
Chris Rock says he still regrets refusing to pay for a lawyer for Roger Logan, his childhood best friend’s brother, who spent nearly 17 years in prison for a 1997 Brooklyn murder before he was exonerated.
4 October 2026
Chicago City Council to weigh $260.8 million settlement for 17 wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to ex-CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara
Chicago taxpayers could soon be shelling out more than $260 million dollars to settle cases tied to allegations that disgraced former police detective Reynaldo Guevara tortured 17 men into false confessions to crimes.
1 October 2026
Florida needs new rules to stop wrongful convictions
On Wrongful Conviction Day, the head of the Innocence Project of Florida urges the Legislature to adopt evidence-based eyewitness identification rules and guardrails on facial recognition, citing the eight years Dustin Duty spent wrongly imprisoned.
1 October 2026
Steven Avery, Brendan Dassey of 'Making a Murderer' fame seek commutations
Nearly 21 years after Teresa Halbach's killing, Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey have applied to Wisconsin's Commutation Advisory Board, and a judge has called commutation for Avery "entirely inappropriate."
30 September 2026
Appeals court stops exoneration in death penalty case
The execution of a woman who claims she was wrongly convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter has been thrown back into legal limbo.
29 September 2026
Man freed after decades on Utah's death row faces new challenges as legal fight continues
Douglas Carter, released after spending more than four decades on Utah's death row, is adjusting to life outside prison while attorneys seek a finding of factual innocence and potential compensation.
29 September 2026
Scottish CCRC takes another look at controversial 1994 Orkneys murder conviction
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission will review Michael Ross's conviction for the 1994 Mumtaz restaurant murder in Kirkwall, which he has always denied.
29 September 2026
Convicted of a murder he did not commit, Fred Steese struggled after prison
Fred Steese spent two decades in prison for a 1992 Las Vegas murder before judges declared him innocent. He was pardoned and paid about $1.4 million, but his life after prison was troubled. He died in August at 62.
28 September 2026
Pardon of innocence first step to seeking payment for wrongful conviction
In North Carolina, a wrongfully convicted person must first win a pardon of innocence before claiming up to $750,000 in state compensation; federal civil rights awards have no cap.
27 September 2026
Association of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (APMI) Innocence Assembly 2026
Sean Bw Parker reports from the APMI's Innocence Assembly in London, where speakers took on IPP and joint enterprise sentences, a CCRC they called unfit for purpose, and the cases of Andrew Malkinson and Peter Sullivan.
25 September 2026
Short Cuts: Rejected Appeals
Matt Foot on the Court of Appeal's refusal to reckon with its own failures: Andrew Malkinson, Oliver Campbell, Justin Plummer and Peter Sullivan all had earlier appeals rejected before their convictions were finally quashed.
24 September 2026
Court quashes 1976 theft convictions over link to corrupt London police officer
Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs, who died in 2004, exonerated of mailbag theft after new evidence emerged
22 September 2026
Remember: You might be wrong
A Montana lawyer from a family of prosecutors argues that mistaken eyewitness testimony and pressure on doubting jurors send innocent people to prison — and that those who doubt deserve respect.
22 September 2026
Michigan got wrongful-conviction compensation right
A retired civil rights attorney contrasts Michigan's compensation law for the wrongly convicted, which lets exonerees also sue, with Indiana's, which pays only if they give up the right to sue forever.
21 September 2026
PRESS RELEASE: Man Wrongly Convicted of Sexual Abuse Files Federal Lawsuit Against Lewis County, Following Suit Against the State of Washington
Jordan D. Coleman filed a federal lawsuit against Lewis County, WA over his wrongful conviction for sexual assault of a minor.
21 September 2026
Indiana Court of Appeals Affirms New Trial for Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic Client Jason Hubbell
The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the State suppressed evidence pointing to another man, affirming a new trial for Jason Hubbell, who has spent more than 28 years in prison for the 1997 murder of Sharon Myers.
18 September 2026
Thirlwall report: ‘myopic’, ‘too early’ and ‘a mistake’
The Thirlwall inquiry found a complete failure to protect babies at the Countess of Chester — but the Guardian, the Telegraph and Peter Hitchens all asked why it reported at all while the CCRC is still weighing Lucy Letby's convictions.
16 September 2026
Review: THE EXONERATED at Black Theatre Troupe
Herbert Paine reviews Black Theatre Troupe's Phoenix staging of the Blank and Jensen documentary play, built from the testimony of six people who were sentenced to death and later exonerated.
14 September 2026
$14M more set to be paid in settlements tied to disgraced former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara
Chicago faces nearly $14 million more in settlements for two men framed for murder by Detective Reynaldo Guevara, on top of a misconduct bill that has already passed $80 million.
11 September 2026
‘Trew’s Law’ urges automatic review of jailed cop’s files to prevent miscarriages of justice
Appeal's campaign would make the state review the case files of every police officer sent to prison, so a corrupt officer's wrongful convictions surface.
11 September 2026
Subu Vedam was exonerated a year ago. Family, supporters are still calling for his freedom
During a vigil held Thursday, State College Mayor Ezra Nanes said Vedam’s ongoing detention is an “injustice piled on top of injustice.”
28 August 2026
Australia’s most shocking wrongful prosecutions
One was a cop branded a serial rapist. Another was accused of a nightclub drugging. But these men share one thing in common: they were all innocent.
27 August 2026
TN gov grants commutation to Thomas Clardy, despite exoneration pleas
Gov. Bill Lee commuted Thomas Clardy's life sentence to parole, stopping short of the Board of Parole's recommendation that he be exonerated.
27 August 2026
She Was Absolved of a Heinous Crime. Why Won’t They Leave Her Alone?
A judge exonerated Nancy Smith, an Ohio bus driver, after she was convicted of abusing children in her care. Now, prosecutors want to reverse an order saying she was innocent.
25 August 2026
Convicted murderer Sue Neill-Fraser can now talk to media, law centre says
The Human Rights Law Centre says a restrictive parole condition that stopped Sue Neill-Fraser from being able to claim her innocence in the media has been removed after a court challenge.
25 August 2026
'I always knew the truth': Man falsely imprisoned for 18 years exonerated of O.C. robbery
Guy Miles spent more than 18 years in prison for a 1998 Fullerton robbery he did not commit; Orange County prosecutors have now vacated the conviction after a Conviction Integrity Unit review.
22 August 2026
Opinion: Connecticut should not tax the wrongfully convicted
New Haven will pay two wrongly convicted men $15.25 million each — yet Connecticut's estate tax can still reclaim 12% of compensation the state itself paid.
21 August 2026
Man who served 30 years for crime he didn't commit sues Albany, detectives for $80M
Corey Young served 30 years for a 1995 Albany shootout he did not commit. He is now suing the city and two detectives for $80 million over coerced witnesses.
19 August 2026
Ohio death row inmate Tyrone Noling gets rare chance to ask parole board for pardon
Tyrone Noling has spent 30 years on Ohio's death row for a double murder he insists he did not commit; a rare clemency hearing let him put recanted testimony and an alternative suspect to the parole board.
19 August 2026
Pueblo woman exonerated of murder sues county, officers
Acacia Lyn-Darr, exonerated in 2025 after nearly 12 years in prison, is suing Pueblo County and its officers over a conviction built on coerced testimony.
19 August 2026
A judge said Queens prosecutors hid evidence. A secret committee cleared them anyway.
George Bell served 24 years in prison before one of the city's highest-profile exonerations.
17 August 2026
Pride and pain for Horizon postmistress one year on from return to work
Rooprit Gill, falsely accused in the Horizon scandal, is back working at her former Post Office branch.
17 August 2026
Family of man convicted of murder says new hurdle emerged ahead of exoneration hearing
The family of a Memphis man wrongfully convicted of murder said a new hurdle has emerged a week before a hearing that could prove his innocence.
16 August 2026
Death Penalty Supporters Say There’s No Proof of the Innocent Being Executed. Virginia Might Prove Them Wrong.
The possibility of executing the innocent has gone a long way to change the national conversation about the death penalty.
14 August 2026
Alan Hall wrongful conviction case: Former cops not guilty of perverting course of justice
Alan Hall was wrongfully convicted nearly 40 years ago of murdering Arthur Easton. Two former police officers involved in the investigation have been found not guilty of perverting the course of justice.
12 August 2026
Man thrown behind bars over an underscore mark
His name had one “_”. The criminal's had two. He got 18 months anyway.
31 July 2026
The Guardian view on the Criminal Cases Review Commission: after Malkinson errors, trust must be earned back
Editorial: A review ordered by Vera Baird should help the body tasked with identifying miscarriages of justice to rebuild itself.
17 July 2026
‘Properly shafted’: How the courts failed to get to grips with the wrongful conviction of Eddie Gilfoyle
The psychologist whose report made Merseyside Police suspect Eddie Gilfoyle of murdering his pregnant wife now calls his own advice 'nonsense'.
3 July 2026
One of NZ’s worst miscarriages of justice goes to trial
One of New Zealand’s worst wrongful convictions returned to court yesterday, 40 years after the murder and subsequent police investigation that led to it.
30 June 2026
Former police officers on trial for wrongful conviction of Alan Hall
The two officers are charged with perverting the course of justice in one of New Zealand’s most high profile wrongful convictions.
29 June 2026
Lawyers of man convicted of Stephen Carroll murder refer PSNI surveillance to miscarriage of justice body
Brendan McConville’s solicitors have referred his case to the CCRC after a review confirmed the PSNI obtained their communications data ahead of his 2013 appeal.
21 October 2025
Catholic Priest Ruthlessly Hunted by Overzealous Detective Specializing in Sexual Abuse Cases Against Clergymen
The wrongful-conviction case of Fr. Gordon MacRae — a New Hampshire priest sentenced to 33½–67 years on uncorroborated abuse claims — and the discredited detective, James McLaughlin, whose investigation secured it.
1 April 2025
Convicting the innocent: how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue
Brian Thornton on how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue, from disclosure failures to an overloaded CCRC.
5 March 2025
The Role of False Memories in Wrongful Convictions
Two Toronto defence lawyers set out how false memories reach the criminal courts, and what R. v Tan and R v SKM show about testing recovered-memory evidence.
16 January 2025
False Accusations and Wrongful Convictions: How Lives Can So Easily Be Ruined
The history of the Australian criminal justice system is littered with instances of innocent lives ruined as a result of false accusations and wrongful convictions.
6 November 2024
Lucy Letby: Serial killer or a miscarriage of justice?
Mathematicians and statisticians questioned the shift-pattern chart that placed Lucy Letby at every suspicious incident on the Countess of Chester neonatal unit. An extract, with our own diagram of how a chart like that is built.
9 July 2024
Derek Bromley granted parole after 40 years
Derek Bromley is granted parole 40 years after his 1984 murder conviction, still maintaining his innocence.
28 March 2024
What if the police and prosecution were told to ‘believe all victims of false allegations’?
A Bristol criminologist inverts the instruction: if police and prosecutors had to believe every claimed victim of a false allegation, would they accept it?
22 January 2024
Sexual abuse – or justice abused? A priest’s tale
Fr Gordon MacRae's own account of the New Hampshire investigation, the plea deals he refused and the 1994 trial that left him serving 33½ to 67 years.
8 January 2024
Review body may help establish other wrongful conviction cases, professor says
A law professor hopes an independent commission aimed at dealing with cases of wrongful conviction will stop cases like Alan Hall's taking decades to rectify.
19 August 2023
Special Report – Prosecutors ‘straining impermissibly for a conviction’: eight examples
Eight Australian cases in which judges, lawyers and legal academics say prosecutors strained impermissibly for a conviction — from Gordon Wood to Shane Drumgold.
4 August 2023
A tendency to wrongful convictions?
Retired NSW public servant Noel Greenaway, 85, is serving 20 years over 1960s Parramatta Girls allegations — a conviction that turned on tendency evidence.
12 June 2023
Is Clive Freeman’s claim of innocence plausible?
Clive Freeman is 79 and in his 35th year in prison for a murder he says never happened. Nine pathologists have since disputed the prosecution pathologist’s conclusion that Alexander Hardie was suffocated — and the CCRC has rejected four applications.
1 March 2023
Missouri man freed as murder conviction overturned after three decades
Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’
15 February 2023
Peter waited 31 years to have his name cleared. When it happened, he was already dead
Peter Ellis waited 31 years to have his name cleared; when the Supreme Court quashed his convictions he was already dead.
7 October 2022
Man wrongfully convicted of New Orleans rape as a teen is exonerated decades later
Sullivan Walter was convicted of a New Orleans rape as a teenager. A judge vacated the conviction 36 years later, citing evidence that could have cleared him.
26 August 2022
New trial being sought in Steven Avery "Making a Murderer" case
Steven Avery from "Making A Murderer" on Netflix (Netflix)
18 August 2022
Alan Hall case: role of crown lawyers in overturned conviction to be investigated by independent inquiry
Inquiry into conviction of innocent man jailed for 19 years will investigate why crucial witness evidence not given to defence.
14 July 2022
Met officer ‘left out evidence’ in UK holidaymaker murder investigation
The IOPC found DCI Neil Hibberd would have had a case to answer for gross misconduct over the evidence he gave at the trial of Ali Kololo, convicted of the 2011 murder of British holidaymaker David Tebbutt in Kenya.
24 June 2022
Wrongful murder conviction: 'Extremely troubling' issues emerge
The inquiry into Alan Hall's quashed murder conviction must unravel extremely troubling issues about how the case against him was run.
9 June 2022
Innocence Files reveals the really guilty
The Innocence Files shows police breaking rules, junk forensic science and prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence.
26 July 2020
Victoria's Court of Appeal — too many judgements overturned, bring on a CCRC
Victoria's Court of Appeal has had 18 judgements overturned by the High Court in 14 years, making the case for a CCRC.
23 July 2020
Robert Xie appeal – was he ‘framed’?
Robert Xie and his wife Kathy Lin say he was framed for the 2009 murders of five of her family. Two extracts from his appeal submissions show why.
24 June 2020
A cancerous phenomenon
One of Australia's most respected former detectives, Colin McLaren, breaks rank to explain why he no longer trusts the judicial system — and why Australia still has no criminal cases review commission.
13 June 2020
Another CCRC established … but still not in Australia
New Zealand's Criminal Cases Review Commission opens for applications on 1 July 2020, leaving Australia the outlier with no equivalent body.
24 May 2020
George Pell: Court quashes cardinal's sexual abuse conviction
Australia's High Court unanimously quashed Cardinal George Pell's conviction for sexually abusing two choirboys, freeing him after more than 400 days in jail.
7 April 2020
Pell the suppliant
As the High Court refers George Pell's special leave application to a full bench, Jeremy Gans recalls the court's 1922 refusal to hear Colin Ross, hanged for a murder he was posthumously pardoned of.
19 November 2019
"Making a Murderer" returns with a new Steven Avery lawyer to obsess over: Kathleen Zellner
Steven Avery's and Brendan Dassey's cases have stayed in the news since season 1. Zellner gives new reason to watch
19 October 2018
On the trail of the IICSAthon
On the trail of the IICSAthon Part 2: Still waters running deep and the trigger that opened the floodgates
22 September 2016
'We are surviving victims of a false accuser and wrongful conviction. Our family is in trauma' — The public speak
Inside Time readers respond to a family's account of a false accuser and wrongful conviction, sharing similar stories.
2 June 2016