November 1, 2011
The Texas Forensic Science Commission on Friday found that unreliable fire science methods, which led to the wrongful conviction of Cameron Todd...
September 30, 2011
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals today reversed Montez Spradley's conviction and death sentence because the bulk of the State's evidence against...
September 22, 2011
The State of Alabama executed Derrick Mason today even though the sentencing judge who condemned him to die admitted his judgment was a mistake, born...
September 21, 2011
The State of Georgia executed Troy Davis tonight, despite evidence that he is innocent of the killing for which he was sentenced to death and despite...
September 12, 2011
Anthony Ray Hinton has now spent more than 25 years on Alabama’s death row for two murders that EJI contends he did not commit. Asked for the third...
September 5, 2011
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., known as the "West Memphis Three," were 18, 16, and 17 years old, respectively, when they...
August 22, 2011
State officials in Texas are blocking a full investigation into evidence showing that Cameron Willingham was not guilty of an arson that killed his...
June 28, 2011
The United States Supreme Court held on June 23, 2011, in Bullcoming v. New Mexico that prosecutors cannot use forensic reports as evidence in a...
April 15, 2011
The Alabama Supreme Court today vacated Brandon Washington's death sentence because the State introduced highly improper victim impact evidence at...
April 7, 2011
On March 28, 2011, the United States Supreme Court denied review in the case of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis after a federal trial court...
