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- 1From:Texas Monthly (Vol. 50, Issue 11)A few hours before dawn on a sticky summer night in Somerville, a one-stoplight town ninety miles northwest of Houston, police chief Jewel Fisher noticed the faint smell of burning wood. Fisher was following up on a...
- 2From:The EconomistEyewitness evidence can be more reliable than thought T HE "SATANIC PANIC" that swept through America in the 1980s and 1990s held that thousands of ordinary people up and down the country were secretly members of...
- 3From:The Christian Century (Vol. 138, Issue 25)More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his convicted killers were exonerated after decades of doubt about who was responsible for the civil rights icon's death. On November 18, Manhattan...
- 4From:Texas Monthly (Vol. 49, Issue 8)Executive editor Michael Hall dropped out of law school at the University of Texas more than three decades ago, but he's a familiar figure to leaders of the State Bar. They just granted Mike his third Texas Gavel Award,...
- 5From:The New York Times MagazineTo hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . It all started with an email I received from a retired librarian in Oregon. ''Dear Ms. Bazelon,'' Karen Oehler...
- 6From:Smithsonian (Vol. 52, Issue 4)It seemed new York city had its own Jack the Ripper. In April 1891, the mutilated body of Carrie Brown, a former self-styled actor, turned up in what the New York Times called a "squalid" lodging house of "unsavory...
- 7From:The Progressive (Vol. 85, Issue 3)In October 2000, Sarah Pender, then twenty-one, was living with her boyfriend, Richard Hull, whom she had met only a few months earlier. They were sharing their two-bedroom house in Indianapolis with another couple,...
- 8From:Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Vol. 40, Issue 3)"The Mauritanian," released in theaters this February, tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was wrongfully detained and tortured at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention facility for 14 years. In November...
- 9From:National Geographic (Vol. 239, Issue 3)1570s "Mars and Venus United by Love" A joining of opposites: Cupid uses a special love knot to bind the Roman god Mars to the goddess Venus in a painting by Paolo Veronese. 1898 The War of the Worlds A witness...
- 10From:Smithsonian (Vol. 51, Issue 8)LONG BEFORE TODAY'S INITIATIVES TO FREE THE WRONGLY IMPRISONED, THE AUTHOR OF THE PERRY MASON NOVELS ROSE TO THE DEFENSE OF AN APACHE SHAMAN WHO WAS CONVICTED OF KILLING HIS WIFE On a Saturday afternoon in February...
- 11From:USA Today (Vol. 149, Issue 2904)PEOPLE WRONGFULLY ACCUSED of a crime often wait years--if ever--to be exonerated. Many of these cases stem from unreliable eyewitness testimony. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have...
- 12From:The Economist (Vol. 435, Issue 9189)Seven judges had doubts An appeals court overturns a cardinal's conviction for sexually abusing choirboys THE JURY that in 2018 found George Pell guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys deliberated about its...
- 13From:The New York Times Book ReviewFREEDOM FIGHTER ''Just Mercy'' has been in theaters for six weeks, but the book it's based on has been in the world for six years -- including 188 weeks on the paperback nonfiction best-seller list, where it is now No....
- 14From:The New American (Vol. 34, Issue 21)That was the refrain we heard when Christine Blasey Ford accused then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh--now an associate justice--of attempted rape. But must we believe Ford, given that she can't remember...
- 15From:The New York Times MagazineAs W.Leon Smith neared the East Texas town of Huntsville, he did not know what to expect. It was a warm September day in 1991, and Smith, a mild-mannered 38-year-old newspaperman whose wire-rimmed glasses lent him a...
- 16From:The New Yorker (Vol. 94, Issue 15)Byline: Jennifer Gonnerman Framed How one woman's fight to save her family helped lead to a mass exoneration. tifPhotograph by Zora J. Murff for The New Yorker"You're not supposed to hate anyone, but these...
- 17From:Reason (Vol. 49, Issue 11)JEFFREY HAVARD'S STORY began the evening of February 21, 2002, when the Mississippi man was keeping an eye on Chloe, the 6-month-old daughter of his girlfriend, Rebecca Britt. According to Havard, Chloe had spit up on...
- 18From:The New Yorker (Vol. 93, Issue 36)Byline: Ken Armstrong Conflicting Convictions What happens when a prosecutor puts the same gun in two hands. Late one spring night in 1984, the doorbell rang at the home of Norman and Mary Jane Stout. The...
- 19From:New Statesman (Vol. 146, Issue 5377-5378)On 2 September 2003, a Dutchman named Romano van der Dussen walked to the beach in Fuengirola, a resort on Spain's Costa del Sol. It was noon, and the high-rise apartment blocks along the seafront shimmered in the heat....
- 20From:Texas Monthly (Vol. 45, Issue 4)FOR ALMOST FOR TV YEARS, KERRY MAX COOK DID EVERYTHING To CLEAR HIS NAME AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF A HORRIFYING MURDER IN TYLER. SO WHEN HE WAS FINALLY EXONERATED, WHY DID HE ASK FoR HIS CONVICTION BACK? ON June...