The recent high-profile exoneration of David Ranta in Brooklyn has brought attention to other national coverage of wrongful convictions. A new ProPublica article highlights the best reporting on these cases, including coverage of several Innocence Project cases. Dating back as early as 1990 up until this month, the ProPublica piece hails more than a dozen stories on subjects ranging from case flaws, DNA evidence and life after exoneration.
Among the highlights are
The Washington Post
for its coverage of
Damon Thibodeaux
,
The New Yorker
for its coverage of
Cameron Todd Willingham
and Texas Monthly for its coverage of
Michael Morton
.
Read the full article
for the rest.
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Highlights of Wrongful Conviction Reporting
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