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The Supreme Court ruled that Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who was convicted of murdering a young grocery store clerk in 1996, can obtain new DNA testing.
The death row inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, appealed a lower court's ruling against his challenge to a Texas law limiting the use of DNA testing after a person has been convicted of a crime. The ...
A Missouri inmate convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998 will avoid the death penalty and instead be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said on ...
Zeigler was re-sentenced and again given the death penalty. [8] In 2005, Zeigler's request for a new trial was denied after DNA tests failed to conclude that Charlie Mays was the perpetrator. [5] [6] Zeigler's case was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016. [14] [15] In April 2017, Zeigler's case was denied Touch DNA analysis. [16]
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland .
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
With this funding, they sent the DNA sample to Parabons NanoLab in Virginia for genetic genealogy testing. Thirty-six years after Tracy’s death, the sheriff’s office used lab data to identify ...
Since DNA testing was still in its infancy in the 1980s, investigators could not test the sample. [2] [7] Trotter had the semen on the swab tested at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation's crime laboratory in Raleigh. In June 2006, a forensic test determined that the sample was 1.2 quadrillion times more likely to come from Hennis.