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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

A criminalist holds a rape kit at the LAPD’s crime lab at the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images This is an excerpt from The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...