Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Vanessa Griddine-Jones · 2 October 2026
The modern death penalty in the United States emerged from court cases involving Georgia. Capital punishment should end because there is little recourse for the innocent.
The City of Rochester, Minnesota, has paid $140,000 to settle the federal lawsuit of a 69-year-old Eau Claire woman whom three police officers wrongly named as the suspect in a counterfeit-bill case.
2 October 2026
Chicago taxpayers could soon be shelling out more than $260 million dollars to settle cases tied to allegations that disgraced former police detective Reynaldo Guevara tortured 17 men into false confessions to crimes.
1 October 2026
On Wrongful Conviction Day, the head of the Innocence Project of Florida urges the Legislature to adopt evidence-based eyewitness identification rules and guardrails on facial recognition, citing the eight years Dustin Duty spent wrongly imprisoned.
1 October 2026
Seven Cornell students named as gang rapists in a civil suit, with no charges brought. Glenn Greenwald on due process, the accuser's own 2024 statement, and mob justice.
30 September 2026
Nearly 21 years after Teresa Halbach's killing, Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey have applied to Wisconsin's Commutation Advisory Board, and a judge has called commutation for Avery "entirely inappropriate."
30 September 2026
Tennessee halted Christa Pike's execution after two rounds of lethal injection drugs failed to kill her, in a two-hour process witnesses said took place largely behind a closed curtain.
30 September 2026
The execution of a woman who claims she was wrongly convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter has been thrown back into legal limbo.
29 September 2026
Douglas Carter, released after spending more than four decades on Utah's death row, is adjusting to life outside prison while attorneys seek a finding of factual innocence and potential compensation.
29 September 2026
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission will review Michael Ross's conviction for the 1994 Mumtaz restaurant murder in Kirkwall, which he has always denied.
29 September 2026