Paul de la Garza: 1961 – 2006
Paul de la Garza, the son of a shrimper who rose from the poverty of south Texas to become a columnist and foreign correspondent for some of America's top news...
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Crib notes for Gov. Rod
In recent weeks, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has claimed he didn't know "The Daily Show" was a comedy program or that he had appointed a Nation of Islam official to the...
Judge doubts lip print, orders retrial in murder
A Kane County judge has ordered a new trial for a man serving 45 years in prison for murder after finding a "grave question of reliability" about a lip print...
Top lab repeatedly botched DNA tests
One of the nation's premier crime labs repeatedly failed to catch botched DNA testing in the case of a Virginia Death Row inmate who spent 17 years in prison before...
Top lab repeatedly botched DNA tests
One of the nation's premier crime labs repeatedly failed to catch botched DNA testing in the case of a Virginia Death Row inmate who spent 17 years in prison before...
U.S. seeks review of fingerprint techniques
Four years after scuttling a study into the reliability of fingerprinting, the research arm of the Justice Department is seeking answers to fundamental questions about the grandfather of forensic science....
Bush plan to improve legal work under fire
President Bush's call for a new $50 million initiative to improve the quality of legal work in death-penalty cases falls far short of a similar measure he signed last year....
Training, DNA tests a priority
President Bush said Wednesday night that he would ask Congress to devote money to a special training program for defense lawyers in capital punishment cases, declaring: "People on trial for...
Digitized prints can point finger at innocent
Deep inside a sprawling complex tucked in the hills of this Appalachian town, a room full of supercomputers attempts to sift America's guilty from its innocent. This is where the...
Death Row inmate wins resentencing
A decade after sending a man to Death Row, an Arizona judge on Thursday granted him a new sentencing hearing based on inconclusive DNA tests and questions about the bite-mark...