Death Row Stories

After Edward Lee Elmore was sentenced to death in 1982 for murder, a legal intern discovered discrepancies pointing to his innocence.

Sometimes the act of one person can alter the entire course of someone else's life. For Joyce Ride, that act was befriending a prisoner named Gloria Killian.

A jury convicts Joe D'Ambrosio of murder in a trial that lasts just three days. Everyone ignores his pleas of innocence until a lawyer-turned-priest steps in.

Convicted in the 1987 rape and murder of a young girl, former police officer James Duckett remains on death row while maintaining his innocence.

A jury sentences John Thompson to death for the 1984 killing of a hotel executive. Weeks before his execution, newly uncovered evidence leads to his freedom.

Businessman Krishna Maharaj spends nearly a decade on death row for murder until an alternative explanation for the killings emerges.

A mountain of circumstantial evidence sends Sgt. Hennis to death row for the murders of an army wife and her two daughters. Then the case takes a unique turn.

A judge sentences Nathan Dunlap to death after his conviction for what was, at the time, one of the worst mass murders in Colorado history.