CA Supreme Court Tosses Kim Long Conviction – She Spent 7 Years in Prison for Murder
By Ruby Chavez SAN FRANCISCO – Kim Long was incarcerated seven years in prison for the…
VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: New Evidence Reveals California’s Longest Serving Inmate on Death Row May Actually be Innocent
Douglas Ray Stankewitz, the longest-serving condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison, may finally have a chance at freedom after new evidence was discovered showing that evidence in his case was mishandled by detectives and sheriff deputies in Fresno, and that he may have been framed for the murder of 22-year-old Theresa Graybeal in 1978.
After Years of Trying, Joseph Webster Finally Finds Relief in 2006 Tennessee Conviction
By Ruby Chavez NASHVILLE, TN – It’s not as though Joseph Webster ever stopped trying, and on…
Tennessee Governor Grants Reprieve on COVID Grounds in Pervis Payne Execution Case
By Lauren Smith TENNESSEE – Friday, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee granted defendant Pervis Payne, a man…
Man Wrongfully Convicted 30 Years Ago Finally Freed – Prosecutor on Hot Seat
By Pavan Potti PHILADELPHIA – On a 1985 day in Northern Philadelphia, a drug deal gone wrong…
ACLU Files Brief in Support of Motion to Reopen Case of Woman Convicted of Murder for Stillborn Birth
By Özge Terzioğlu FRESNO— The ACLU of Northern California and Drug Policy Alliance filed briefs in support…
Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions
By Linhchi Nguyen CHICAGO – The “Roscetti Four” – wrongfully convicted men who were eventually exonerated –…
Commentary: Scott Peterson’s Case May Return for a New Trial – and It Should
By David Greenwald While last month the California Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in the…
‘Factually Innocent’ Man Exonerated after Spending 7 Years in Prison for Armed Robbery
By Lauren Smith LOS ANGELES – After seven years in prison, Derek Harris was exonerated and released…
EXONERATIONS: Part II in the Series – Frequency of Official Misconduct/ Characteristics of Misconduct and Its Disparities
(This is the second in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations…
On Wednesday, a Tennessee Court Decides on Allowing DNA Testing – Pervis Payne’s Life Depends on It.
By Alana Bleimann TENNESSEE – Pervis Payne may know this coming Wednesday if he’ll be killed Dec….
‘Innocent and Released: Now What?’ CA Innocence Project Webinar & Kiera Newsome
By Cailin Garcia Kiera Newsome was only 17 years old when she was wrongfully convicted of first-degree…
For More Than 30 Years, Florida Man Fights to Prove Innocence
By Julietta Bisharyan FLORIDA – It has been 30 years since Crosley Green was convicted of murdering…
Charges against Curtis Flowers Are Finally Dropped – After 23 Years on Death Row, He Goes Free
By Gabriela Tsudik A Mississippi man, Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for a single case…
Coalition Groups Urge District Attorney to Support DNA Testing for Man on Death Row
By Julietta Bisharyan MEMPHIS – For more than three decades after being sentenced to death, Pervis Payne…
Innocence Project Helps Free Robert DuBoise after Nearly 37 Years in Prison, Thanks to DNA Evidence
By Cailin Garcia TAMPA, FL – Robert DuBoise Thursday had an emotional reunion with his family after…
Appellate Court Orders New Hearing for Ronnie Long
By David M. Greenwald Ronnie Long has been imprisoned for 44 years for a rape that occurred…
Facing Dec. Execution, Pervis Payne Asks Court for DNA Testing as New Evidence in 30-Year-Old Case
By Angelina Caplanis TENNESSEE – DNA testing of 30-year-old evidence, including the murder weapon, may exonerate Pervis…
FBI Hair Analysis Called into Question after Santae Tribble’s 2012 Exoneration
By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – After spending 28 years wrongly convicted of and imprisoned for murder,…
Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing
By Zhuoshan Liu MEMPHIS, TN – Friday, Pervis Payne’s attorney’s request for DNA testing was opposed by…