Death row Scot freed
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An appeal hearing agrees to Kenny Richey's release from prison after the Scot spent 20 years on death row.
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Cuba&#39;s most famous political prisoner, the dissident poet RaÃºl Rivero, was yesterday released by Fidel Castro&#39;s regime after serving 18 months of a 20-year sentence.
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A man who has been on Death Row for 20 years for the murder of a two-year-old girl is to be freed after a plea bargain.
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A Briton who spent more than 21 years on death row in America is due to return to Scotland after he was freed by a US court.
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A man who has been on death row for 20 years for the murder of a toddler is to be freed after a plea bargain.
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A man wrongly jailed for 18 years in a child rape case was released from prison Tuesday after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime.
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An octogenarian cleric jailed for 10 years by a UN court for Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been released, becoming the tribunal's first convict to be freed after serving his sentence.
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Naseem Hamed is released from jail 16 weeks into a 15-month sentence for dangerous driving.
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A British national held in detention in Pakistan without charge for more than a year is released, Human Rights Watch says.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison after completing his U.S.-imposed sentence.
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An Irish Republican Army member who killed a police officer walked free on parole from prison Monday, rekindling memories of one of the IRA's most bitterly disputed slayings.
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Kenny Richey, who has spent the past 20 years on death row in the US, expected back in UK by end of week
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Briton due to be released after spending 20 years on death row in US taken to hospital with chest pains
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The reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged with the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers was freed Wednesday on &#36;250,000 bail.
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Northern Ireland's most notorious Protestant militant, Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair, was freed from prison Monday, then immediately flown to England to avoid death threats from his former colleagues.
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A Georgia man, who served 17 years in  prison for rape and robbery, was freed on Tuesday, one week  after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongly convicted of the  crime.