The L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup is here. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year's festival will feature Chelsea ...

Most notably, it would delete part of Florida Statute 961.04 that denies payment to exonerees with more than one nonviolent ...

Thankfully, State Rep. Traci Koster and State Sen. Jennifer Bradley have introduced bills this session that would make these ...

Georgia lawmakers are considering HB 533, a bill that would establish a standardized process for compensating the wrongfully convicted, awarding $75,000 for each year of incarceration and an ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...

Oregon is considering a new bill, SB 1007, to help streamline the process for wrongfully convicted exonerees to get ...

It should have been simple. He didn't do it. But Glynn Simmons' journey from being wrongfully incarcerated in Oklahoma for a murder he did not commit to his eventual exoneration took 48 years. Amid ...

Changes to Oregon’s law would require the state Department of Justice to consider new evidence pointing to people’s innocence. The concept of a 2022 bill to address wrongful convictions in ...

Photo courtesy of Brad Wakoff. Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist, professor, and author of this year’s Williams Reads book Braiding Sweetgrass, delivered the evening keynote address at Claiming Williams ...

The bill, if passed, would provide $65,000 for each year an exoneree spent behind bars. That amount increases to $75,000 per year for those on death row. Additionally, those who spent time on ...

“I am an exoneree.” It was misidentification by an eyewitness that resulted in Benson’s conviction for a 1998 murder. ”We are all here to prevent injustice,” Benson told the Senate ...