116 US death row inmates cleared over 28 years: report
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.
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By JEFF CARLTON  DALLAS - The Innocence Project of Texas will review the cases of 354 inmates who have requested DNA testing in an effort to be exonerated, the Dallas County district attorney announced Friday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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Texas remained the most active death penalty state in 2004 with 23 executions, down from a year ago and about average for the past decade. But legal experts and death penalty opponents suggest there are signs that increased judicial scrutiny is giving pause to juries and prosecutors considering capital punishment.
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In New York, DNA evidence has exonerated 23 people wrongfully convicted of crimes since 1991, but the state has failed to enact laws that would prevent sending more innocent people to jail.
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With little more than the standard &#36;100 in his pocket, Ernest Willis walked out of prison a free man Wednesday after 17 years on death row for a crime that may have never even occurred.
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Even though more countries are renouncing the death penalty, more people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in the past two years, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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Twenty eight of the 189 serious foreign offenders freed without being considered for deportation are still at large.
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WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, Lt...
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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The use of the death penalty dropped this year for the fifth year in a row, as questions grow about the guilt of the condemned and more states take a hard look at their use of executions, says a report by a group critical of the punishment.
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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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Â· 1,200 released early under emergency package  Â· Prison population again tops 81,000 record
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WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt...
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The death penalty continues to be a bone of contention, especially between the United States and Europe. While it has been abolished in most of the world&#146;s advanced democracies, the United States is near the top of the list in terms of executions worldwide. How many executions were carried out in the United States in 2006?
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A Briton whose US murder conviction was quashed after 18 years on death row has spoken of his anger.
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A study suggests that there are thousands of people serving long sentences for crimes they did not commit but who have no hope that DNA can clear them.