The Irish wife of a man jailed in Greece for crimes independent evidence shows he could not have committed is making last-minute preparations today for the long-awaited appeal hearing she hopes will free him.

The head of the Irish Innocence Project has said he is shocked and troubled by the handling of a case involving the husband of an Irishwoman who is jailed in Greece after his appeal was postponed for reasons described as “absurd”.

IN THE four-and-a-half years since her wedding day, Julie Marku has spent less than one-third of her married life with her husband.

An Irishwoman fighting to free her husband from a Greek jail has secured the backing of Innocence Project lawyers to challenge his detention.

A North Texas man has been freed more than two decades after he was wrongly convicted of raping a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl.

BEST-SELLING crime author John Grisham told lawmakers that faulty science is all over the US justice system, and urged nationwide improvements to forensic techniques.

The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he did not commit gathered at his graveside with a framed copy of the state’s first posthumous pardon – a document that finally proves his innocence.

INNOCENT of a crime he never commited, he spent 26 years in a US prison.

US lawyers for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed on Wednesday have made a last-ditch bid for genetic testing on evidence in his case, saying it is needed to ensure the state doesn’t put an innocent man to death.

A Detroit man has been freed from jail after serving 17 years for a rape and murder that DNA evidence has proved he did not commit.