After almost half a century behind bars, a black man in the US has been exonerated of a homicide charge — the longest serving inmate to be vindicated. 70-year-old Glynn Simmons, a resident of Louisiana, was put behind bars for the 1974 murder of Carolyn Sue Rogers.

Wrongfully convicted of murder, black man exonerated after almost 50 years in prison

A hearing begins Monday in a case that will decide if the conviction should be overturned for a Missouri man who has spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder that two other people later confessed to committing.

Missouri man who spent decades in prison seeks exoneration in murder

Three Baltimore men who spent 36 years in prison were exonerated on Monday of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at Harlem Park Junior High School in West Baltimore.

Three Baltimore men exonerated after 36 years in prison

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