Ohio death-row inmate ... BCI’s assertion that critical evidence gathered at the scene of the crime is contaminated to the point that it is “scientifically unsuitable” for DNA testing. “The ...

Rep. Jeff Leach shows an image of a rug with blood stain of death row inmate Robert Roberson’s daughter during a committee hearing about the case of Roberson at the Texas State Capitol ...

(Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer) Texas death row inmate ... the state’s “junk science” law allowing people to challenge convictions with new science was applied in his case.

The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the victim’s family asking that he be spared. Did he die an innocent man?

The special master appointed to oversee the testing sent the case ... on death row. At the August 28 hearing, absent the expected DNA findings on the murder weapon, attorneys from Bell’s office ...

Goertz on behalf of Texas death-row ... a murder case. The Supreme Court considered when the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. §1983 procedural due process claim begins to run in a case where a ...

It is now up to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which had asked the judge to revisit the case, to determine whether Lucio should be released. “After 16 years on death row, it’s time for ...

A Texas death row inmate ... s fall. Nelson found the jury had determined a verdict based on the false testimony by Farley and the incorrect testimony from Escalon. Lucio’s case caught the ...

Lucio's execution ... her case. Rep. Jeff Leach stands next to death row inmate Melissa Lucio during a visit by a group of seven lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas on April ...

The Supreme Court of Texas is weighing ... for the Legislature’s subpoena power. And testimony by a death row inmate at the state Capitol about his case would be historic. In January, three ...