Innocence
,Oct 01, 2019
A Kentucky man who languished in jail for nearly six years because of bail he could not afford has been acquitted of capital murder and related charges. Eugene “Red” Mitchell (pictured) faced the death penalty on …
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Jan 30, 2018
The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld a trial court ruling overturning the first-degree murder conviction of David Bueno (pictured) after Arapahoe County prosecutors who sought the death penalty a…
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Jan 28, 2009
Five people in Nebraska were recently pardoned for a 1985 murder after new DNA evidence excluded their participation in the crime. The group was also known as the “Beatrice Six.” The sixth man, the only one who had insisted on a j…
Innocence
,Mar 25, 2019
Broward County, Florida prosecutors moved to posthumously exonerate Ronald Stewart (pictured) of a rape and murder he did not commit. Stewart pled no contest to the 1983 rape and murder of Regina Harrison after he…
Costs
,Innocence
,Jun 24, 2022
The city of Idaho Falls, Idaho has agreed to a settlement of $11.7 million with an exoneree who spent 20 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. Christopher Tapp (pictured, center, with St…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Oct 23, 2019
A Louisiana prisoner wrongfully prosecuted for capital murder has agreed to a plea deal that secures his freedom after spending 42 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. With the assistance of the …
Costs
,Innocence
,Oct 15, 2018
A Nebraska county has raised property taxes on its residents and asked the state legislature for a bailout to help pay a $28.1 million civil judgment it owes to…
Costs
,Innocence
,New Voices
,Jul 11, 2016
A federal court jury has awarded six Nebraska exonerees (pictured, at their exoneration) $28 million in damages for official misconduct that led to their wrongful convictions in the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson. T…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Aug 24, 2016
Two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania capital cases involving men who have long asserted their innocence reached major milestones on August 23, with one winning an appeal granting him a new trial and a jury acquitting a second in his ret…
Innocence
,Aug 29, 2019
Thirty-seven years after his wrongful capital prosecution and conviction for a murder he did not commit, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has set Samuel Bonner free. Citing “gross prosecutorial misconduct…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,May 16, 2017
On May 13, 2017, James “Jimmy” Dennis (pictured, center, with some of his defense team) was released from prison after more than 25 years on Pennsylvania’s death row. His release marked the culmination of three un…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Apr 23, 2019
At least five people were exonerated in 2018 after having been wrongfully convicted in cases that involved the misuse or threatened use of the death penalty, a DPIC analysis of data accompanying a new report by the National Registry of Exoneration…
Innocence
,Nov 12, 2019
Rob Warden and John Seasly speak with Anne Holsinger about their
