In its 6-3 opinion in Skinner v. Switzer, which involves a Texas death-row inmate seeking post-conviction DNA testing, the U.S. Supreme Court on March 7 reversed the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

This jacket, blood- and sweat-stained, was found near Twila's body. It's now missing. DNA testing in the case of death row inmate Hank Skinner “confirms” that he is responsible for the deaths of his ...