Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent ...

A federal judge ordered a new trial for Alabama Death Row inmate Christopher Barbour. But Alabama AG Steve Marshall’s office ...

Lance Shockley, who had long insisted he was innocent in the 2005 killing of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl “Dewayne” Graham Jr., was executed on Oct. 14, 2025 after years of pressing courts ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

More than a decade after a woman was kidnapped outside of a Tamarac apartment and sexually assaulted, one of the suspects has ...

Since the ’90s, the name of a woman found dead in an Albuquerque motel was unknown, and no family could be identified. But ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Unidentified Human Remains DNA Initiative has led to a breakthrough in another ...