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Illinois became the first state Saturday to pass a bill that will ban police from lying to youth during interrogations — a practice that adds significantly to the risk of

The Exonerated tells the true stories of six former inmates who were wrongfully convicted of murder and placed on death row but were later exonerated after serving years in prison.

© Stefani Reynolds North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) pardoned a man who served 20 years in prison due to a wrongful murder conviction.  Cooper announced on Friday that he granted a "Pardon of Innocence" to Darryl Anthony Howard, who was sentenced in 1995 for two counts of murder and one count of arson. Howard was sentenced to two consecutive 40-year terms for the murders and one 40-year term for the arson that would run concurrently, his pardon states. ADVERTISEMENT “It is important to ...

A memorial and mural honoring George Floyd in Houstons Third Ward, photographed on June 8, 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty Mercy is best enjoyed by the living. The dead, as far as we know, can’t receive the tangible benefits that usually come with a pardon for a criminal act. They can’t get the restoration of their civil rights, such as the right to vote or to serve on a jury. They can’t collect money from the state that would allow them to rebuild their lives. But that doesn’t mean the deceased...

23 Apr 2021 London’s Court of Appeal has overturned 39 people’s criminal convictions made after the rollout of a computerised accounting system at the British Post Office saw hundreds accused of thefts and false accounting they had not committed The Post Office said they were “extremely sorry” to postmasters on Friday morning after the Court of Appeal ruled on 42 individuals’ convictions for theft and fraud. Thirty-nine of those had their convictions overturned and names cleared, but...

In 1994, Gary Gauger was wrongfully placed on death row, but was proven innocent a few years later. After his sentence was overturned, Gauger was profiled in a 2000 play called “The Exonerated.”  Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law and School of Communication hosted a dramatic reading of the play Thursday — a reading that has a connection to the University because Gauger was a death row client at NU’s Center on Wrongful Convictions. “I was one of the lucky people… my friends we...

Northwestern Now Pritzker Law and School of Communication present “The Exonerated” April 15 Alumni Harry Lennix and Katrina Lenk and School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson are featured in the April 15 reading of The Exonerated. Stage and screen star Harry Lennix (C ’86), School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson and Tony Award winner Katrina Lenk, a graduate of Bienen School of Music, will be featured in a dramatic reading of “The Exonerated” at 6:30 p.m...

Professional exonerators contributed to more than 60% of last years exonerations     Ricky Davis holds up a shirt with the logo of the Northern California Innocence Project after his release from custody at the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville, California, on Feb. 13, 2020. Davis spent about 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of second degree murder. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Conviction integrity units and innocence organizations are contributing to an increasing number of...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Nearly a quarter of a century after the grisly rape and murder of her daughter Angie, Carol Dodges tireless pursuit of justice led to the overturning of a wrongful conviction that had held for two decades -- and helped authorities put the true murderer behind bars. "I cant even express how hard this journey has been and the hundreds of people affected by one persons choice to take my daughters life," Dodge said during a police press conference in 2017. Carol Dodge investig...

Mom overturns wrongful conviction, catches true killer in daughters murder Angie Dodge was 18 years old when she was raped and murdered: Part 1 Replay Video UP NEXT Nearly a quarter of a century after the grizzly rape and murder of her daughter Angie, Carol Dodge’s tireless pursuit of justice led to the overturning of a wrongful conviction that had held for two decades -- and helped authorities put the true murderer behind bars. © Carol Dodge “I cant even express how hard this journey...