Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham, an uneducated heavy-metal devotee, for killing his three daughters in a case of arson. But as numerous investigations and news articles have uncovered... Read more
Former Black Panther and award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner but has always maintained his innocence. Read more
A British grandmother on death row in Texas has moved closer to a possible execution date after the US Supreme Court rejected her latest appeal. Linda Carty, 60, was sentenced to death in Fe... Read more
Overruling a Kerr County judge in a decision issued on Wednesday, the state's highest criminal court rejected an appeal from a death row inmate, Jeff Wood, who was the getaway driver in a bo... Read more
CNN’s “Death Row Stories” focused on Bastrop County in a recent episode that fleshed out the complex 1996 slaying of Stacey Stites and the decadeslong murder trial of Rodney Reed. Read more
Anthony Ray Hinton endured almost three decades behind bars, wrongly convicted by Alabama’s racist judiciary system. Here, he tells his incredible story of his years detained on Alabama’s de... Read more
Activist Kimberly Davis came to UNC's campus Monday night to speak about her family’s long struggle to prove the innocence of her brother, who was executed by the state of Georgia in 2011. Read more
Plans for a major revamp of the Hampstead Museum at Burgh House are under way to celebrate the 40th anniversary in 2019 of the Grade I historic Queen Anne mansion being saved from being sold... Read more
