MIAMI — Seven years after he was sentenced to death in the fatal stabbings of two Florida women, Clemente Javier Aguirre appeared in a Seminole County courtroom on Monday to present DNA evidence that ... Read more
The State of Mississippi has denied requests for DNA testing of evidence made by a prisoner set to be executed on Tuesday, potentially setting up what experts said would be a rare case in recent years in which ... Read more
Techniques for collecting and analyzing evidence in rape cases have evolved over the last decade, as has the understanding of the psychological effects of sexual assault. But how health practitioners, law ... Read more
CAMBRIDGE, England ITALY’S highest court on Tuesday overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox, accused of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British woman who was Knox’s ... Read more
State Attorney General Pam Bondi sought a court order on Tuesday to allow the exhumation of bodies thought to be buried at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, which closed in 2011. The reform school ... Read more
ARLINGTON, Va. — Older women in hoop skirts and petticoats came together with youthful sailors in their dress blues for a rare public double interment at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. ... Read more
Justice Wallace Jefferson of State Supreme Court called for a commission to investigate wrongful convictions, suggesting on Wednesday that faith in the legal system might be undermined given that Texas ... Read more
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — A Mississippi mayoral candidate who was found dead last week was not killed by being beaten, burned or dragged, the coroner said on Tuesday, challenging a statement from the ... Read more
A British coroner said on Wednesday that he would hold secret hearings on some evidence in advance of a planned inquest into the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former officer in the K.G.B. who died after ... Read more
WASHINGTON — About halfway through a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday over whether the police may take DNA samples from people they arrest, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. reflected on just how momentous the ... Read more