Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application. As previously reported in Truthout, at age 20, she was ...

The first ruling of its kind in the country could give people convicted based on SBS testimony a new shot at freedom.

In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived ...

When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready to protest and document the Trump administration’s ...

Fresh investigative reporting, media from other independent outlets, and stories from the archives. Since The Appeal has ...

After Ballard’s fall, the people he helped arrest in Washington want to know why no one seems willing to take a second look at their cases.

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