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Lamar Johnson isn’t eligible for state restitution because DNA evidence wasn’t used to overturn his murder conviction.

A prosecutor announces she will charge Alec Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed over a shooting on a movie set, after more than a year of investigation.

Lamar Johnson has waited 27 years for a chance to have his conviction overturned. He now must wait on a decision from St. Louis Circuit Court Judge David Mason that

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is trying to vacate Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction, a crime that Johnson has long held he did not commit. But she’s facing pushback from the attorney general’s office.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is trying to vacate Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction. But she’s facing pushback from the state attorney general’s office.

Kevin Johnson is scheduled to be executed by the state of Missouri on Nov. 29. A jury of six white and six Black members deadlocked on whether he was guilty of first-degree murder or a lesser charge. When he went back for a second trial, he ended up with just three Black jurors — and a guilty verdict of first-degree murder.

All-white juries continue to sentence Black defendants to death — because the legal system allows it.

It's illegal to eliminate a juror on the basis of race. But in practice, it's all too common

St. Louis — Police officers were called to the home of Orlando Harris on Oct. 15, nine days before he went on a shooting rampage inside a St. Louis high school. Harris’ mother had asked officers to re...

Newly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election result