On Aug. 11, 1991, 21-year-old Anita Byington was beaten to death and left outside an Austin, Texas, apartment complex. "Anita was funny, she had a great sense of humor. She was always full of laughter ...

The headline is becoming more common: “Innocent Man Freed After Decades in Jail for Murder!” As a matter of statistical probabilities, it must be true that some innocent defendants are convicted. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carmella Bowers and her son Johnnie Boykins are fighting to exonerate Boyers' son Darren Boykins, who was convicted for the 1981 ...

In 1997, Thomas Sierra was convicted of a murder he had not committed. His conviction was based on two eyewitnesses who said they had been pressured into identifying Sierra as the perpetrator by a ...

Release of exonerated man delayed after cop claims to have new evidence DETROIT – An exoneration hearing will be held Wednesday afternoon for a Detroit man who was found to be innocent on charges he ...

A black man who served more than 16 years in prison on a wrongful armed robbery conviction was shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop in Georgia as he was driving to visit his mother, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kevin Strickland left behind a world of gray concrete and iron one year ago, exonerated after spending 43 years, most of his life, in prison for a crime he didn't commit. "The year ...

The world has forgotten they were just boys. Forrest Welborn was 15. His best friend, Maurice Pierce, was 16; and their friends Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen were 17 when they first became ...

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for ...