I’ve reported here regularly about the many post-conviction exonerations that have followed questionable convictions originally based on junk science. A lot of them have happened in Texas. So many so, that even the Houston City Council decided to hire a professional investigator to come in and take a look at their crime labs and assess […]

Governor Mark Warner of Virginia has taken yet another action in the fight to pursue justice wherever it may take us. In the first move of its kind, the Governor has ordered post-mortem DNA testing to be done to determine if a man executed for murder in 1982 was in fact innocent.
Roger Keith Coleman may […]

I know, you’re getting tired of hearing about innocent prisoners released after DNA testing. But you need to stop getting used to it and continue to be appalled at cases like this. After seven and a half years in prison for a murder that he did not commit, Clarence Elkins finally got his break. His […]

I’m floored. While most politicians across the country are falling over themselves trying to outdo each other on the “tough on crime” scale, one lone maverick is bucking the trend by calling into question the integrity of the system itself. Governor Mark Warner of Virginia made headlines recently when he commuted the death sentence of […]

For 24 years Robert Clark was emphatic that he was innocent of rape and kidnap charges brought against him in 1981. After the victim “identified” Clark, however, a jury convicted him and off he went to begin a life in prison. His mother died while he was in jail, and his 3 year old son […]

Robin Lovitt, pictured above, would have been the nation’s 1000th execution since the death penalty was re-introduced into the US in 1976. But with only 24 hours to spare before his November 30th execution, Lovitt was spared that distinction with a last-minute commutation of his sentence by Virginia’s Governor Mark Warner.
The reason? Call it the […]

You may have heard of the infamous and brutal murder of 11-year old honor-student Ryan Harris in Chicago in 1998. It’s an all-too familiar theme: police, under intense public pressure to solve a hot case, arrest a suspect, get a “confession”, and cease all further investigative leads to focus on the suspect in custody. […]