A new podcast uses a 1987 El Paso serial killing case to examine the complexities, uncertainties and human costs of Texas’ ...

Host Maurice Chammah takes you behind the scenes as a death penalty defense team races to try to stop an execution 30 years ...

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The court concluded that the trial was flawed because the state failed to disclose key evidence. Prosecutors failed to properly turn over evidence that could have allowed for "substantial and ...

Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the popular podcast Serial, has been released from prison after a judge overturned his conviction on Monday. The podcast returned to the subject of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sarah Koenig-hosted “Serial” podcast, a public radio show that helped popularize the podcasting medium following its first ...

IT QUITE WAS. I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE STATE ATTORNEY AND THE STATE’S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE WERE WORKING TOGETHER ON THIS. AND RIGHT AFTER THEY DID THEIR SUMMARIES AND, YOU KNOW, ARGUE ...

The wildly popular podcast "Serial" has found relevance in high school classrooms as a way to improve listening and critical thinking skills. It didn’t take long for Michael Godsey, an English teacher ...

The 1999 murder of Baltimore teenager Hae Min Lee is now an unsolved case. Prosecutors formally drop all charges against Syed. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie ...