More than four years after his death, Richard Lapointe’s family is set to receive a nearly $5.9 million award from...
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A man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement despite a history of mental illness can sue Pennsylvania prison officials...
The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the...
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who...
A man who was recently cleared in the gruesome, fiery 1995 killing of a subway token booth clerk sued New...
Famed forensic scientist Henry Lee was found liable for fabricating evidence in a murder case that sent two Connecticut men...
A Maryland board approved $2.9 million in compensation Wednesday for a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 32 years, including...
A Massachusetts man who spent 32 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of setting a fire that killed...
A Pennsylvania man who spent nearly 14 years in prison for a deadly 1993 fire before winning a new trial...