The Innocence Project of Texas

As the week progresses, the Innocence Project of Texas will be posting updates on the Timothy Cole hearing on this website.  We will include links to relevant media pieces and information regarding the hearing itself.  If you have any questions that you would like to have answered regarding the case, please post a comment in [...]

Later this week, Innocence Project of Texas attorneys will seek out the State’s first formal posthumous DNA exoneration. Timothy Cole, who always maintained his innocence for a 1985 sexual assault, was cleared by DNA evidence after dying in prison of asthma related heart complications. His family and the rape victim have now joined [...]

The Innocence Project reports that Texas Death Row inmate, Larry Swearingen, has been granted a stay  of execution.  Swearingen was scheduled to die by lethal injection tomorrow in Huntsville, Texas.
The Innocence Project reports on their blog that:
The federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today granted Texas death row inmate Larry Swearingen a stay of execution [...]