Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell, just feet from the execution chamber. Meanwhile, the state and his advocates were fighting over his fate.

Grisham, embracing his new sideline as an exoneration activist, also joined the board of the Innocence Project, founded by crusading attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck. Now Grisham and ...

“We are in uncharted waters legally in Texas,” Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, told CNN’s Erica Hill Friday. Just over 90 minutes before Roberson’s execution was set to ...

(CNN) — Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night, just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to die by lethal injection for the “shaken baby ...

Matias Reyes violently raped a 28-year-old woman who was jogging in Central Park on April 19, 1989. He beat her so badly she remained in a coma for 12 days.

The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld who gained national attention in the mid-1990s as part of the "Dream Team" of lawyers who formed part of the defense in the ...