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Sep 28, 2021

Death-Row Exonerees in Ohio, Oklahoma Receive Million Dollar Payments for Their Wrongful Convictions

Two men exon­er­at­ed from death row, one in Ohio and one in Oklahoma, have received mil­lion ‑dol­lar pay­outs for their wrong­ful con­vic­tions and death sen­tences. Both were tried and con­vict­ed in coun­ties with long his­to­ries of pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct and high rates of wrong­ful cap­i­tal con­vic­tions. The com­pen­sa­tion comes more than a decade after each was released from…

May 13, 2001

When the Evidence Lies

Joyce Gilchrist helped send dozens to death row. The foren­sic sci­en­tist’s errors are putting cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment under the micro­scope By BELINDA LUSCOMBETime MagazinePosted Sunday, May 13,…