A Utah State Crime Lab report has excluded Douglas Carter, who spent 42 years on death row, as a match to DNA recovered from key evidence at a 1985 murder scene. This finding presents an additional challenge to a conviction previously overturned due to documented police and prosecutorial misconduct.
Attorneys representing death row prisoner James Duckett contend that Florida is proceeding with his July 28 execution following state officials’ selection of DNA testing methods. These methods, the defense asserts, precluded a complete forensic analysis of key biological evidence, thereby compromising the integrity of Duckett’s conviction.
A defense attorney sought dismissal of a firearm possession case in Kings County Criminal Court following a preliminary laboratory report that identified the sole discernible DNA evidence on the recovered firearm as belonging to a male individual, despite the defendant being a cisgender woman.
Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst Yvonne “Missy” Woods entered a guilty plea Tuesday to multiple felony charges, including cybercrime and perjury, stemming from the manipulation and mishandling of forensic evidence in criminal investigations. The plea, accepted by Judge Andrew Poland in the First Judicial District, addresses misconduct that has cast doubt upon more than 1,000 criminal cases statewide.
Marquez Powell, 41, was exonerated Thursday after nearly 21 years of incarceration for a 2005 murder, following a Fulton County judge’s approval of a Joint Extraordinary Motion for New Trial. The motion, filed by the Georgia Innocence Project and the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit, cited newly developed DNA evidence that supported Powell’s claims of non-participation and prompted prosecutors to dismiss all charges.
Pierre Constant was acquitted of all charges after spending 18 months in jail for an attack allegedly committed, with allegations of police misconduct and prosecutorial delays raising concerns about wrongful convictions and due process.
After spending 18 months in jail, a Black man was found not guilty of a 2024 stabbing and robbery case after exculpatory DNA evidence was found in the investigating officer’s inbox for 16 months.
The ACLU of Tennessee has filed a motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court to conduct DNA testing in the case of Tony Carruthers, arguing that the results could prove his innocence before the state carries out the execution.
James Duckett, a former Lake County police officer, is scheduled for execution on March 31, 2026, but his attorneys argue that newly revealed evidence and pending DNA testing raise questions about his conviction and the limited timeframe provided for postconviction review.
The defense argued that investigators failed to conduct a complete DNA analysis in a gross vehicular manslaughter case, raising questions about who was driving at the time of the collision.
Kevin Cooper, who has been on California’s death row for 42 years, maintains his innocence and is seeking a new trial based on alleged evidence tampering, destruction and withholding, as well as racial bias in his prosecution and appeals.
Danny Davis spent more than 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, after being coerced into a false confession by police, until DNA evidence proved his innocence and a judge vacated his conviction in 2024.
The trial of a man accused of murdering five of his infant children between 1992 and 2001 has been postponed once again, despite an emotional victim impact statement from his daughter, and is now scheduled to begin on October 20.
Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time anti-death penalty advocate, believes Ohio is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment due to growing support for repeal and the state’s own capital punishment task force calling the death penalty “more complex, more subject to constant change, and fraught with more mistakes”.
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