Innocence

Meet the Exonerated

David Protess | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Wrongful Convictions, Death Penalty, Innocence Project, The Exonerated, Exoneration, Death Row Exoneration, Exoneration Report, National Registry of Exonerations, Innocence, Criminal Exonerations, Chicago News

The next time you see an exoneree take his first steps to freedom, look past their smiles. Get pissed. Get involved. Make a difference.

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PHOTOS: Back In Time In Myanmar

Sam Gellman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Photography, Travel, Travel Photography, Myanmar, Burma, Pagoda, Inle Lake, Innocence, Slidepollajax, Sam Gellman, Sam, Bagan, Shwedagon, Gellman, Travel News

in Myanmar, villagers never ask for money to have their picture taken. This is especially noteworthy because the country is terribly poor.

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The Price of Freedom

David Protess | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Restitution, Chicago Police Torture, Jon Burge, Innocence, Eric Caine, Job Burge Torture, Illinois Compensation Law, Illinois Restitution, Eric Caine Innocence, Chicago News

What do we owe an innocent prisoner after he is freed? Apparently nothing in the 27 states with no laws to compensate the wrongfully convicted.

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Texas Court of Inquiry Into Prosecutorial Misconduct Is Big News

Andrea Lyon | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Due Process, Innocence, Innocence Project, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Supreme Court, Justice, Crime News

A special investigation has been convened to decide whether a former prosecutor, who is now a judge, hid evidence in a trial in which a man was wrongly convicted of his wife's murder and sent to prison for almost 25 years.

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Protecting Your Child's Innocence

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Margaret Paul, Protecting-Your-Children, Trusting Feelings, Open Heart, Inner Bonding, Innocence, Closed Heart, Trusting Yourself, Parents News

Part of our job as parents is to teach our children to trust a deeper level of inner knowing, the level that says in the heart or stomach, "This feels wrong." "This feels bad." "This feels dangerous."

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Sometimes the Other Person Has a Point

Andrea Lyon | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Political Discord, Dna, Criminal Justice, Innocent, Innocence, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Prosecution, Armchair Detective, Crime News

It is hard to admit a mistake, but for heaven's sake, there has to be a better way to evaluate a case than fighting simply to save the conviction.

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The Death Penalty: Questionable Evidence for Deterrence

Paul Heroux | Posted 11.08.2011

The death penalty is about as divisive an issue as abortion or gun control. Studies are offered by proponents and opponents to both support and condemn both sides of each issue. It is therefore imperative to assess and critique the quality, reliability and validity of the studies.

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Willful Ignorance In Texas Execution?

Radley Balko | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Texas, Hank Skinner, Dna Testing, Hank Skinner Texas, Death Penalty Debate, Texas Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Rick Perry Death Penalty, Medill Innocence Project, Innocence, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Politics News

A week from today, Texas death row inmate Henry "Hank" Skinner is scheduled to be executed for the 1995 murders of Twila Busby and her two adult sons....

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Inspiration and Child-Like Innocence: Are We Allowed?

Denise Lumiere | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Stress Management, Creativity, Dolphin Tale, Films, Fun, Balancing Life, Laughter, Mammals, Motivation, Peace, Innocence, Movies, Marine Life, Inspiration, Children's Movies, Environment, Disability, Medicine, Overcoming Adversity, Productivity, Parents, Ocean, Parents News

What if we really allowed ourselves to enjoy life, to laugh more -- and to see more inspirational movies? What if we took some time off, even if it is just two hours to enjoy a children's movie? What could be wrong with that?

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Boxed in

Carolita Johnson | Posted 11.10.2011

Read More: Mourning, 9/11, Media, Innocence, Humor, Children, Exploitation, Comedy News

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Forensics Fraud: Video Shows 'Bite Mark Expert' Fabricating Evidence

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Eddie Lee Howard, Video, Crime, Michael West, Criminal Justice, Innocence Project, Innocence, Jim Hood, Mississippi, Louisiana, Jimmie Duncan, Forensics, Steven Hayne, Death Penalty, Leigh Stubbs, Crime News

On Aug. 9, The Huffington Post reported on the case of Leigh Stubbs, a Mississippi woman serving a 44-year sentence for assault and drug charges. Stub...

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A Fraudulent Conviction? Mississippi Woman Serving 44-Year Sentence Despite Discredited Testimony

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Video, Mississippi, Forensic Science, Michael West, Crime, Bite Marks, Dunn Lampton, Wrongful Conviction, Forensics, Innocence Project, Leigh Stubbs, Innocence, Crime News

Prosecutors in the U.S. often decry what is sometimes called the "CSI Effect." Movies and TV crime dramas like the popular "CSI" franchise on CBS can ...

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Cory Maye Chats With HuffPost Readers About His Release From Prison

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Radley Balko, Death Row, Live Chat, Mississippi, Drug War, Racism, Cory Maye, Death Penalty, Police Militarization, Race, Innocence, Swat Teams, Politics News

Cory Maye served 10 years in prison for killing a Mississippi police officer during a mistaken raid on his home. Maye, who had no prior criminal recor...

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Ten Years In The Making: How Cory Maye Was Freed

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Radley Balko, Death Row, Mississippi, Drug War, Cory Maye, Death Penalty, Police Militarization, Ron Jones, Innocence, Swat Teams, Politics News

MONTICELLO, Miss. -- It's Friday, July 1, 2011, a little past 8:15 a.m. when I arrive at the Lawrence County, Mississippi, courthouse. As I walk towar...

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I Am Troy Davis

James Clark | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Troy Davis, Death Penalty, Troy Davis Execution, Wrongful Conviction, Innocence, Claire McCaskill, Civil Rights, Politics News

I've never met him, but Troy Anthony Davis, on Georgia's death row since 1991 despite grave doubts concerning his guilt, is the reason I left the work I was pursuing in graduate school and devoted myself to working against the death penalty.

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We Can Stop the Execution of Troy Davis

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: US Supreme Court, Troy Davis, Justice, Criminal Justice, Innocence, Georgia, Capitol Punishment, Benjamin Todd Jealous, Prisons, Reasonable Doubt, Amnesty International, Naacp, Death Penalty, Death Row, Politics News

As an American, I have faith in our justice system. But as President of the NAACP, I have seen how our justice system can fail -- sometimes even when it comes to life and death.

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After 25 Years In Prison, Falsely Accused Man Helps Others Avoid Same Fate

Nicole Skibola | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Exoneration, Centurion Ministries, Exonorated, Innocence, Criminal Justice System, Darryl Burton, False Conviction, Prison, Wrongful Conviction, False Imprisonment, Impact News

During the week of August 28, 2008, Darryl Burton was exonerated of his capital murder charge -- after spending 24 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

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It's All Happening at the Zoo

Michael J. McCarthy | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Seeing, Vision, Inner Child, Complacency, Fresh Perspective, Hope, The Denver Zoo, Stagnation, Spiritual, Inner Living, Wisdom 2.0, Love, Innocence, Life, Denver News

I went to the Denver Zoo recently to reflect. Quite often, a change of scenery helps give me a fresh perspective.

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Silence as Assent

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Texas Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Error, Criminal Justice System, Innocence, Politics News

Something extraordinary is happening in Texas. A trial judge is holding hearings and listening to evidence about whether that state's death penalty i...

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Witness to Innocence

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Luck, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Jury, Innocence, Politics News

Men who have become exonerated after serving on death row were saved in spite of the system, not because of it. To say otherwise is not only inaccurate, it is cruel.

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Reclaiming the Wisdom of Innocence

Levi Ben-Shmuel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Self Mastery, Luck, Simplicity, Wisdom, Innocence, Joy, Loss of Innocence, The Unknown, Childhood Innocence, Unplug and Recharge, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

We can experiment with wise innocence. We can choose to see the world and ourselves with fresh, pure eyes in any moment. Who knows what opportunities might open for us if we do?

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The Prison Industrial Complex

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Politics, Law and Punishment, Incarceration, Innocence, Prison, Politics News

Almost ten percent of our population is locked up. Does this accomplish anything? In other words, does locking up a drug dealer stop drug dealing? The answer is, and has been for decades, a resounding no.

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Unsung Hero

Mike Farrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wrongful Convictions, Oklahoma, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Innocence, John Grisham, Politics News

Greg Wilhoit is one of the 139 people who, after struggling for years to cling to sanity in the rubbish heap of death row, was proven innocent of the crime, exonerated and set free.

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The Death Penalty is Dying

Mike Farrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Innocence, Abolition, Home News

As president of the board of Death Penalty Focus, an abolition organization, I find myself discussing executions a lot. Whether to kill a person who ...

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The Death Penalty Revisited, Again

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Supreme Court, Death Penalty, Innocence, Fernando Bermudez, Antonin Scalia, Politics News

Some innocent dead men walking can now take hope. Two cases have been decided in the last four months that suggest it may actually make a difference whether or not the visitor to the death chamber is guilty or innocent.

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