Kevin Gannon, a retired detective sergeant with the New York Police Department, spent just 10 minutes looking at official documents related to the case of Rodney Reed — slated for execution in Texas on Mar. 5 — before concluding that something was very, very wrong.

It was October 2014 and Gannon was working as part of a three-cop team featured on the A&E channel true-crime show Dead Again. The program follows the trio of veteran detectives as they reinvestigate old murder cases. Read More »

Injustice Anywhere Radio update: We will soon be moving from blogtalkradio to Live 365. The new format will give Injustice Anywhere many more opportunities to expand our message. We will have our own dedicated station running live and recorded content discussing various cases and topics of wrongful convictions. Our online radio station will be available on our website, Live365, iPhone, iPad, Android, Roku, and more. Listening is made easy with iTunes and the free Radio 365 app available at Google play.

INDONESIA’s courts have rejected an application for a judicial review into the cases of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who face execution.

Lawyers for the Bali Nine ringeladers on Friday applied for a second judicial review of their case, examining past errors of the law, and their transformation over a decade in jail.

Denpasar District Court spokesman Hasoloan Sianturi today told reporters that the application had been rejected. Read More »

Let’s call 2014 “the year of the wrongfully convicted.” Why? According to figures released last week by the National Registry of Exonerations, at least 125 wrongful convictions were overturned in 2014. This smashed the previous single-year exoneration records of 91 (in both 2012 and 2013 according to recently revised numbers) and has serious implications that we should not ignore. Read More »

Fourteen months ago, Ryan Ferguson was in prison, where he was in the middle of serving the 10th year of a 40-year sentence.

On Sunday, Ferguson will be at the Super Bowl thanks to a Texas businessman who heard his story.

So what is Ferguson’s story? Read More »

I was the 100th person to be exonerated and released after being sentenced to death. Can we doubt there are more of us?

A Maricopa County judge sentenced me to death in 1992.

At the time of the murder for which I was convicted, the actual perpetrator, Ken Phillips, was on probation for a violent sexual offense. Three weeks after the crime for which I was sentenced to die, he sexually assaulted and choked a 7-year-old girl. He matched the description of a man seen near the location of the murder; it was later determined that shoe prints, palm prints and blood found at the scene matched him as well. Read More »

GroundReport | Author: S. Michael Scadron

On March 25, 2015, the case against Seattle native Amanda Knox and her one time Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, will be heard by the Italian Supreme Court in what may be the pair’s final attempt to set right a miscarriage of justice reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair of the nineteenth century.

To briefly recount, the sorry saga began on November 1, 2007, when Knox’s housemate, Meredith Kercher, was found murdered, her throat slashed, in the cottage she shared with Knox and two Italian women in the Umbrian hill city of Perugia. On scant evidence, Knox and Sollecito were convicted of murdering Kercher in December 2009 following a year-long trial. A third man, Rudi Guede, was convicted of the crime in a separate abbreviated trial in which evidence was not contested. The conviction of Knox and Sollecito was overturned two years later, when an appellate court found them innocent. The prosecution appealed and the Italian Supreme Court annulled the acquittal in March 2013, ordering a re-trial by a different appellate court. As a result Knox and Sollecito were once again convicted, setting the stage for yet another, possibly final, appeal to Italy’s high court. Parallels between Italy’s case against Knox and Sollecito and the Dreyfus Affair are compelling. Continue reading →