Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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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
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
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
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