Politics & Policy
October 5, 2023
James Reyos Has Always Been Innocent. After Forty Years, the Courts Agree.
On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared the 67-year-old Native American innocent of a 1981 murder.
Innocence Project
Politics & Policy
September 15, 2023
The Science Used to Send Him to Death Row Has Changed. The Courts Haven’t Yet Caught Up.
Robert Roberson is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to examine “shaken baby syndrome” and the state of forensic science.
News & Politics
August 9, 2023
She Got 99 Years in Prison for a Crime She Didn’t Commit. Nearly 20 Years Later, Rosa Jimenez Has Been Exonerated.
The new grandmother, in need of a new kidney, says all she wants is a normal life.
News & Politics
February 9, 2023
Running Into Fire: The Legacy of Jeff Blackburn
The cofounder of the Innocence Project of Texas set a model for working with state agencies to investigate potential wrongful convictions.
News & Politics
January 29, 2021
After Eighteen Years Behind Bars for a Crime She Didn’t Commit, Rosa Jimenez Is Finally Free
Her ordeal included one final trauma: ICE showed up to deport her before the Mexican consulate intervened.
Politics & Policy
July 13, 2020
How a New Jersey Divinity Student Helped Transform the Texas Criminal Justice System
Jim McCloskey, the godfather of the innocence movement, changed the way we think about crime and punishment.
News & Politics
December 19, 2018
“It’s the Best Day of My Life”: Texas Man Convicted on “Junk Science” Declared Innocent
Found guilty in 1987, the freed man will be paid $2.5 million by the state of Texas, which he'll use to support his prison ministry.
Reevaluations
April 21, 2014
Streamlining the Quest to Overturn Wrongful Convictions
The Innocence Project of Texas receives thousands of letters each year from prison inmates proclaiming their innocence. So do a number of other innocence clinics around the state, which is why the Lubbock-based nonprofit wants to establish a single system for screening letters.
January 21, 2013
DNA Testing Clears Texas Prisoner of Rape
David Lee Wiggins, 48, had served 23 years in prison for the 1989 rape of a teenage girl when testing revealed DNA evidence did not link him to the crime.
January 21, 2013
HPD Crime Lab To Be Revamped?
Houston Mayor Annise Parker suggested making the city's crime lab independent and adding a Innocence Project representative to the board overseeing it.
True Crime
January 20, 2013
Weird Science
As the peculiar case of a Fort Bend sheriff’s deputy and his bloodhounds makes clear, the techniques of crime-scene investigation are not as infallible as the TV shows would have us believe. How a misplaced faith in some forensic experts is putting innocent people behind bars.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 2009
Memo to Kay
Even someone who supports the death penalty, as you do, can and should be up in arms over the Cameron Willingham case.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 2007
Craig’s List
Of the many things the first black district attorney of Dallas County is doing, none is more important than rethinking the concept of guilt and innocence.