The case of young George Stinney, only 14 years old, tragically illustrates another source of wrongful convictions in this country— false confessions. In March 1944, two young white girls were found brutally murdered in Alcolu, South Carolina. The girls had been beaten over the head with a railroad spike and dumped into a ditch. George […]
Exonerating the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustices
False Confession
Many of the nation’s more than 360 wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence involved some form of a false confession. It can be difficult to understand why a person would wrongly confess to a crime they did not commit. To learn more about the causes of false confession, click here: https://innocenceproject.org/