Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late ...

James Duckett, a former Lake County police officer, is scheduled for execution on March 31, 2026, but his attorneys argue that newly revealed evidence and pending DNA testing raise questions about his ...

As James Duckett faces execution at the end of this month for the 1987 murder of an 11-year-old girl, his lawyers are confident that DNA testing will prove he is innocent. On Friday, a week after Gov.

The motion was filed in Pike Circuit 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has put DNA testing at its crime lab on hold as it works to determine the source of “sporadic DNA contamination.” The sheriff’s office said it appears the ...

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 ...