News May 21

Corey Williams About to Walk Free in Louisiana

A sudden plea deal ends a decades-long fight in a capital murder case.

By Andrew Cohen

Q&A March 21

When the Innocent Go to Prison, How Many Guilty Go Free?

A husband and wife want to upend how we talk about wrongful convictions.

By Maurice Chammah

News March 20

The DAs Who Want to Set the Guilty Free

‘Sentence review units’ would revisit harsh punishments from the past.

By Eli Hager

Commentary March 13

Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity

“The time has come to create some level of accountability for prosecutors.”

Frederic Block

Life Inside November 30, 2017

Two Wrongful Convictions. One Happy Marriage.

“It felt like the universe put us together.”

By Maurice Chammah

Life Inside October 19, 2017

I Served 26 Years for Murder Even Though the Killer Confessed

One of the strangest, cruelest stories of wrongful conviction you’ll ever read.

By Alton Logan and Berl Falbaum

News July 13, 2017

When a Witness Confronts the Accused: Is a Courtroom I.D. Fair?

So far, two states say not always, and try to limit the practice.

By Marella Gayla

Feature May 22, 2017

The Accusation

Katie's father went to prison for raping her and her brothers. It was an unthinkable crime that broke her family apart. So why couldn't she remember it?

By Maurice Chammah

Feature March 22, 2017

“Harmless Errors”

Eight young men and the murder story that sent them away for life

By Thomas Dybdahl

Life Inside March 9, 2017

Facing Her Daughter’s Killer, at Last

But only after two wrongly convicted men were set free.

By Jeanette Popp, as told to Maurice Chammah

Q&A January 2, 2017

John Grisham on the State of Criminal Justice

“There are thousands of innocent people in prison serving long sentences for crimes committed by others.”

By Bill Keller

Case in Point November 14, 2016

When the Star Witness Recants

The evidence against Rodney Lincoln has evaporated, but the courts say he’s out of luck.

By Andrew Cohen

Commentary April 6, 2016

Oops, We Took 20 Years of Your Life by Mistake. Have a Nice Day.

What society owes the exonerated.

By Jarrett Adams

News February 2, 2016

Old Convictions, New Science

Texas tackles debunked forensics.

By Maurice Chammah

Commentary January 26, 2016

Were You or a Loved One the Victim of a Crime? Was the Perpetrator Later Exonerated?

If so, we want to hear from you.

By Blair Hickman

News January 5, 2016

Penny Beerntsen, the Rape Victim in ‘Making A Murderer,’ Speaks Out

“My testimony sent an innocent person to prison…. I absolutely wanted the earth to swallow me.”

By Christie Thompson

Justice Lab October 30, 2015

Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable… Or Is It?

A new study of the data says it depends on timing.

By Benjamin Ryan

Analysis October 20, 2015

Why is a Man Serving Life for a Murder that Feds Say Someone Else Committed?

The unusual case of Lamont McKoy.

By Andrew Cohen

News September 10, 2015

‘I’m Just Happy to Be Alive’

An Alabama man, wrongfully convicted, overcomes a judicial override to gain his freedom.

By Andrew Cohen

News June 25, 2015

Ohio Gets a Third Chance to Kill Michael Keenan

A case so messy one judge says it’s an argument for abolishing the death penalty.

By Ken Armstrong

News May 27, 2015

Out of Prison, Out of Luck

When the test of innocence is withheld.

By Christie Thompson

News April 14, 2015

Two Confessions

One by a nervous kid. One by a self-styled hit man. A Detroit whodunnit.

By Andrew Cohen

Q&A April 9, 2015

30 Years on Death Row: A Conversation with Anthony Ray Hinton

‘They tell you justice is blind. I am telling you that justice can see.'

By Corey G. Johnson

Looking Back March 13, 2015

Broken on the Wheel

The gruesome 18th Century legal case that turned a famed philosopher into a crusader for the innocent.

By Ken Armstrong

Commentary January 27, 2015

A New York Lesson for Chicago (and Elsewhere)

Paying the wrongfully imprisoned, quickly, is both moral and economical.

By Alexa Van Brunt

News December 23, 2014

PowerPoint Justice

When prosecutors slide around the law.

By Ken Armstrong

News November 21, 2014

The Corrections

Tales from a week of overturned convictions.

By Andrew Cohen