While they remain a singularly popular pop-culture genre, the police and court procedurals that draw the eyes and attention of television viewers on a daily basis have, unfortunately, given most ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

Robert Roberson speaks to Lester Holt. It’s a convenient diagnosis for prosecutors, because it provides motive (the “vigorous” shaking implies anger at the child), cause of death (vigorous shaking), ...

It's Halloween. So what could be scarier than a state throwing a person in prison for arson when the fire was accidental? Executing him. That's the lesson of a report released Friday by the Texas ...

Here, we highlight a few “worst of the worst” offenders when it comes to junk science. We lead with a decision from years past—likely familiar to the reader, as the issue (whether vaccines can cause ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. In a courtroom drama, the moment the hero lawyer stands to begin their cross-examination, the room falls silent with expectation. Fixing ...

Brian Wharton, the lead detective who testified for the prosecution at trial but now believes that Robert Roberson is innocent, speaks during a news conference in front of the Anderson County ...

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

No innocent person should be forced to serve out a prison sentence—or be executed—just because they were convicted based on junk science. That’s why, ten years ago a group of bipartisan legislators ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate's legal team ...