U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued three dissenting opinions as the nation’s highest court released decisions ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed, leaving intact lower-court ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 opinion that Texas death row prisoner Ruben Gutierrez should be permitted to continue his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's post-conviction ...

The death-row inmate in Texas has maintained his innocence in the 1996 rape and murder of a police officer’s fiancée.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s fight for DNA testing nearly three years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A technician removes tubes containing genetic material in this 2010 McClatchy file photo. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) A ...

At 11:33 a.m., Ivory resumes his testimony as the defense cross-examines him regarding the DNA examination process and its application to the evidence. There is another recess at 12:30 p.m. At 10:22 a ...

James Duckett has been temporarily spared from execution pending the results of a DNA test that his lawyers say will ...

An apparent large-scale operation Friday night tied to the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie marks a "significant escalation" in the Arizona case, with investigators now racing to canvas ...

Further developments in paternity testing have arisen as a result of the rapidly evolving field of genetic testing technologies. A previous method of determining paternity during pregnancy was to do ...