Entries tagged with “Bite Mark Evidence”

Sep 02, 2026

Articles of Interest: Former Death Row Prisoner Jimmie Duncan, Declared Factually Innocent, Describes His Experience Since Release and the Threat to Return Him to Prison

Jimmie​“Chris” Duncan was released from Louisiana’s death row in 2025 but is still fac­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a retri­al for the 1993 death of his girlfriend’s daugh­ter, 23-month-old Haley Oliveaux. Mr. Duncan has con­sis­tent­ly main­tained his inno­cence, and in June 2026, the Louisiana Supreme Court unan­i­mous­ly affirmed a low­er court’s deci­sion find­ing him fac­tu­al­ly inno­cent. But in an inter­view with ProPublica and Verite News, he describes the​“hope­less” feeling of…

Executions

Aug 15, 2022

Texas Executes Man Whose Conviction Relied on Discredited Forensics

Texas on August 17, 2022 exe­cut­ed Kosoul Chanthakoummane (pic­tured), whose con­vic­tion pros­e­cu­tors obtained with dis­cred­it­ed foren­sic tes­ti­mo­ny. He was the sec­ond defen­dant of col­or in less than a month to be put to death over the objec­tion of the…