Georgia gave America its modern death penalty. Fifty years is long enough.

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.

Malcolm Scott shares his story on Wrongful Conviction Day, 10 years after being exonerated

Ten years after his exoneration, Malcolm Scott — the first person the Oklahoma Innocence Project helped free — recounts the false eyewitness testimony that cost him 22 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

USA

Rochester pays $140K to Wisconsin woman falsely accused of crime

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.

USA

Chicago City Council to weigh $260.8 million settlement for 17 wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to ex-CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara

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.

USA

Florida needs new rules to stop wrongful convictions

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.

Hub Originals

Glenn Greenwald on the Cornell case and online mob justice

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.

Wrongful Convictions

Steven Avery, Brendan Dassey of 'Making a Murderer' fame seek commutations

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."

Courts

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike receiving medical care after failed execution

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.

Wrongful Convictions

Appeals court stops exoneration in death penalty case

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.