In the U.S., the wrongfully convicted are often expected to prove their innocence through DNA, even though many crimes leave ...

The New England Innocence Project is pushing for DNA testing in a 1988 murder. The group says the retesting could clear the name of Shawn Tanner, who served more than 30 years for murder and died in ...

Lawyers for the Innocence Project want a state judge to order new DNA tests of evidence taken from the murder of an 82-year-old woman who was slain in her home in Amherst in 1995. The New York ...

In this July 9, 2003, file photo, Scott Peterson listens during a pretrial hearing in Stanislaus Superior Court, in Modesto, Calif. automation A California judge largely denied a motion by Scott ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois Attorney General's Office has entered the courtroom in the Illinois Innocence Project's effort to overturn the Slover family's murder convictions. In early June, ...

TALLAHASSEE — After DNA testing led to his conviction and sentence getting tossed out, a man incarcerated for more than two ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate Sedley Alley. The Innocence Project hopes to use DNA evidence to exonerate Alley 13 years after ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- After investigating the case for more than a year, the Los Angeles Innocence Project has filed voluminous evidence it says shows Scott Peterson did not murder his wife and unborn son ...

After investigating the case for more than a year, the Los Angeles Innocence Project has filed voluminous evidence it says shows Scott Peterson did not murder his wife and unborn son in 2002. In a ...

Data from Virginia's post-conviction DNA project support the innocence of 33 persons convicted of sexual assaults from 1973 to 1987 concludes an Urban Institute study. Findings released today indicate ...