Death Row Stories

After a family of six is found brutally murdered in a rural Texas town, a perpetrator confesses to the crime.

When 19-year-old Stacey Stites' body is found half-naked by the side of the road, her fianc?, police officer Jimmy Fennell, is cleared as a suspect.

Hank Skinner was convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her two sons, but college students later discovered key pieces of evidence were never tested for DNA.

A 17-year-old girl goes to a Mississippi hospital holding her deceased baby. A jury convicts her of murder, but a death penalty expert helps secure a re-trial.

After the murder of a four-year-old girl, police arrest a neighbor for the crime, but an author writing about the death penalty finds holes in the investigation.

The leader of a notorious biker club gets the death penalty, is later exonerated, and then again charged by the federal government under the RICO Act.

In a California home, someone murders a babysitter while leaving five children unscathed. The parents point to a local transient, who is now in prison.

Two teenage step-brothers of an 11-year-old girl confess to suffocating her, but with IQs under 60, they maintain their confessions were coerced.