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Jimmie Duncan is on death row in Louisiana based on fraudulent science—but that might not matter if the state’s governorship flips this fall.

At least two dozen people have been wrongfully convicted for crimes they never committed because of bogus bite mark analysis.

I grew up in the golden age of forensic science, at a time when expert witnesses were becoming celebs, each with their special little area of crimebusting know-how. The papers were full of excited talk about hair microscopy, ballistics and fibre analysis. Crime scene investigators were hot as pop stars. My brother and I had

Black man who spent years on death row freed after evidence discredited in murder case January 13, 2021 / 1:06 PM / CBS/AP A Black man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row in the 1992 killing of a White woman has been released from a Mississippi prison after a judge dismissed the murder charge against him. Eddie Lee Howard, now 67, was convicted multiple times of capital murder in the stabbing death of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp of Lowndes County, but key evidence used to convict him was later discredited. In Mississippi, capital murder is defined as a killing committed alon...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge has dismissed a murder charge against a Black...