As the innocence community mourns the loss of Curtis Flowers, his legacy reminds us that the fight for criminal and racial ...

Case after case has exposed the continued unreliability of our capital punishment system, writes Innocence Project Executive ...

(April 13, 2026 — Grand Junction, CO) Today, the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office dismissed the double murder charges against James “Jimmy” Genrich’s related to a series of pipe bombings that ...

On May 24, 2023, Tyrone Day was exonerated by DNA testing of a sexual assault conviction in Dallas, Texas. He had spent more than 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. At about 2 a.m. on ...

On Nov. 13, 1980, the body of Patricia Jeschke was found in the bedroom of her apartment on the east side of St. Joseph, Missouri. Ms. Jeschke was a secretary at the St. Joseph Public Library, and her ...

This fall, the Innocence Project is revamping one of its popular programs to mark the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Week from October 25-31. The week recognizes the importance of pro bono, or ...

In July 2022, more than 33 years after Leroy Harris was convicted of sexual assault and robbery in New Haven, Connecticut, he was granted an absolute pardon. In the early morning hours of May 21, 1983 ...

At about noon on November 29, 1988, a 74-year-old woman was taking her daily walk along an abandoned railroad bed in Rochester, NY, when she was shot twice in the head with a BB gun, struck with a ...

The following day, Alexandria Police Detective Barry Shiftic was assigned to investigate the crime. The victim described her assailant as a Black male who wore a gray sweatshirt, red shorts, and white ...

Ryan Matthews spent five years on Louisiana's death row for a crime he did not commit. Seventeen years old at the time he was arrested, Matthews was sentenced to death for the shooting death of Tommy ...

In the summer of 1985, Carolyn Muncey was found dead near her home in rural Luttrell, Tennessee. Dressed in a nightgown and house coat, her bloodied body was found under some brush on the bank of a ...

Several hours later, B.S. regained consciousness, called a neighbor, and left a message on the answering machine that “someone killed my grandmother.” She then walked to another neighbor’s house and ...