Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carmella Bowers and her son Johnnie Boykins are fighting to exonerate Boyers' son Darren Boykins, who was convicted for the 1981 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The case of convicted wife killer Scott Peterson has sparked new attention on exonerations in the United States following the announcement that the LA Innocence Project has taken up ...

Last week brought new evidence of crippling flaws in America’s death penalty system. The number of people exonerated and freed from death row over the last 50 years reached 200. Such flaws appear ...

How did you maintain a balance in your personal life between working to free your son and also taking care of yourself day to day? Every day I worked in constant fear that I would lose Arthur to the ...

A black man who served more than 16 years in prison on a wrongful armed robbery conviction was shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop in Georgia as he was driving to visit his mother, ...

A petition for the exoneration of Eric Riddick, a Pennsylvania inmate who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for first degree murder, has received over 2,780 signatures since three Georgetown ...

If this isn’t exoneration for Shohei Ohtani, it’s as good as it gets, barring some other bombshell. Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, is presumed innocent, but the federal government’s ...

Georgetown University undergraduate students have launched extensive advocacy campaigns to raise awareness for five wrongfully incarcerated individuals and fight for their exoneration. Students in the ...