OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — What happens when an innocent man goes to prison for a crime he did not commit? Glynn Simmons was convicted of murder in 1975. He was sentenced to death for a killing that ...
Wayne Gardine and Jabar Walker, both 49, were convicted of separate murders in the 1990s and spent more than 20 years in prison.
For the ninth consecutive year, fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States in 2023 and fewer than 50 were ...
A person spending years, decades or life in prison for a crime they did not commit may seem unimaginable, however, for many it is a reality. Jamie Ellsworth, a lawyer with The Idaho Innocence ...
Death is the one punishment that can never be undone. Imagine, if you will, what it would be like to be arrested for a crime you did not commit, given a death sentence, and found innocent fifteen ...
A Philadelphia man was exonerated Monday after serving 17 years behind bars in connection with a 2006 murder. David Sparks, 34, ... and Simmons was shot and killed in December 2016, the DAO said.
NEW YORK -- Two men who served decades in prison for separate murders in New York City were exonerated on Monday after reinvestigations found that they had been convicted based on unreliable ...
An exonerated man walked free on Monday night more than a decade after he was wrongfully convicted for a Philadelphia murder, officials said. David Sparks, then 16, was initially picked up by ...
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released their annual report on Friday, reporting that for the first time more Americans believe the death penalty is administered unfairly than those who ...
Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine, both 49, were exonerated Monday after the witness testimony that led to their murder convictions was deemed unreliable. Walker was cleared of a 1995 double homicide.
