by updater | Aug 22, 2025 | Innocence, Wrongful Conviction
“After being branded a monster and spending more than 30 years in prison for murder, Mr. Melock’s name and record are finally cleared. “I can finally hold my head up high,” he says. WAUKEGAN, Il. – Robert Melock was only 22 in January 1989, when he was arrested...
by First Last | Jul 11, 2024 | News, Wrongful Conviction
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Reaches 200th Exoneration from Death Row FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — As of July 1, 2024, 200 prisoners in the U.S. have been exonerated and freed from death row since 1973, demonstrating the serious risk of executing the innocent. Witness to Innocence...
by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 19, 2020 | Innocence, Wrongful Conviction
While the rest of us shelter in place, Walter Ogrod is on Pennsylvania’s death row. He checks all the boxes on the list of symptoms for the Coronavirus disease: high fever, cough, shortness of breath. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Conviction...
