Nation Jan 18 Ethel Rosenberg’s family pushes Biden to exonerate her decades after her execution By John Yang, Harry Zahn
Arts Nov 30 Author Alice Sebold apologizes to man cleared in 1981 rape Sebold said Tuesday she was struggling with the role she unwittingly played in a system that sent an innocent man to jail. By Karen Matthews, Associated Press
Nation Nov 18 Watch 9:12 Why Malcolm X’s murder was revisited, and what exonerations say about U.S. justice system A New York judge on Thursday exonerated two men of assassinating Malcolm X. The iconic civil rights figure was gunned down in Manhattan in 1965. Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam were convicted, and imprisoned until the 1980's. A… By John Yang, Murrey Jacobson
Nation Dec 01 Sons of Ethel Rosenberg plead with Obama to exonerate mother WASHINGTON — The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after pleading unsuccessfully to spare her life, in a last-ditch appeal to President Barack Obama to exonerate her amid new… By Eric Tucker and Josh Lederman, Associated Press
Nation Apr 09 Watch 9:29 Should people convicted on unsound science be given new trials? By Hannah Yi
Jan 24 North Carolina man exonerated after nearly four decades in prison By Carey Reed A three-judge panel on Friday declared a North Carolina man innocent after he had served almost 40 years of a life sentence for a 1976 double murder. Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch Exonerated but not free: What do we owe the wrongfully convicted? By PBS News Hour In the US, state laws governing compensation for wrongfully convicted people vary significantly. While some states offer sizable packages for the exonerated, at least 20 offer nothing. And even for those that do, it may not be enough to make… Continue watching