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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP) — Illinois became the first state Saturday to pass a bill...

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

>> my dying words will always be, as it has been, i am an innocent man. >> four years after lee's execution, new dna evidence may exonerate him. the murder weapon was recently tested for dna for the first time. last month, that test found the dna of someone else. lee's attorney tried to get the weapon tested before the execution, but a judge blocked it. i'm joined now by laura nirider, she's a clinical professor of law at northwestern and codirector of the center on wrongful convictions. thank you for coming on. it just seems shocking to me, laura, that it took almost 30 years for the murder w...

Be executed or awaiting execution but who have powerful claims of innocence. people like julius jones in oklahoma, james daley in florida, pervis payne in tennessee. these are all death row inmates of serious claims of innocence that need to be investigated. and of course the case in tennessee, another case that is being handled by the innocence project and other lawyers, ed isis sedley ali was executed. his daughter is now asking for access to the dna evidence in her father's case so she can determine once and for all whether her father was innocent as he said. so far, the courts in tennessee...

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. CDT, Thursday, April 15. Co-presented by Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law and School o...