For years, the state attorney general’s office in Virginia has distributed letters to former jurors in capital cases, cautioning them against talking to defense lawyers working on appeals.
After three current and former Chicago police detectives took the Fifth rather than testify in a post-conviction case concerning their alleged abuse of a capital murder suspect nearly 20 years…
Death penalty opponents who relied on journalists to investigate unjust convictions and seek DNA evidence are bemoaning newsroom cuts that are costing investigative reporters their jobs.
Not quite a year ago, Charles Dean Hood was on the verge of being put to death in Texas when an execution order expired. A few months later, a last-minute…
A lawyer for a death-row inmate with an IQ of 69 told the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday that his client’s sentence should be vacated because of a 2002 decision barring…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a convicted murderer deserves a new hearing to assess whether evidence withheld before trial would have changed jurors’ decision to impose the death penalty.
The solicitor general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a 1986 decision that restricts police questioning of suspects who have asked for a lawyer.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a death-row inmate’s claim that his constitutional rights were violated when jurors consulted a Bible during deliberations.
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by a Georgia death-row inmate who claims the Eighth Amendment bars his execution because he is innocent.
In a filing today, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies disciplinary charges of misconduct and incompetence filed against her last month by the Texas Commission…
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