Wrongful Conviction

In 1956, Tommy Lee Walker, a Black man, was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murder of Venice Parker.

The city of Chicago has paid out nearly $100 million so far, with legal experts estimating potential exposure reaching $2 billion.

The two men were both teenagers when they were first arrested in the case. They've now been declared innocent after being wrongfully convicted.

A jury found sheriff's deputies guilty of wrongful detainment of a Black family at a northern California Starbucks during a September 2019 incident.

Thomas Raynard James has been released from prison after serving 32 years for a murder he never committed after an eyewitness identified the wrong person.

83-year-old Muhammad Aziz filed a lawsuit against New York State one month after being exonerated in connection to the assassination of Malcolm X.

Team Roc, the criminal justice arm of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, has helped raise $1 million to go towards the Innocence Project for Kansas City's Wyandotte County.

Lydell Grant was declared innocent after being convicted of murder in 2012. He can now apply for $80,000 in compensation for each year he was imprisoned.

A judge ordered the state of Mississippi to pay the maximum compensation of $500,000 to Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years.

ABC's 'For Life' chronicles a man's journey back to his family after being wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn't commit.

Three Baltimore men have been released after serving 36 years in prison on wrongful convictions.

Meek met with the wrongfully accused man backstage at Tidal X.

John Bunn was convicted in 1991.

The state of Kansas does not have to turn over money for wrongfully imprisoning a man for 23 years.