With a set of outdated legal books, a typewriter, and centuries of prison time in the balance, Howard Atkins proved the state wrong. He is trying to do it again. Atkins, 40, is one of 1,828 people in ...

In 1991, Brent Brewer was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing Robert Laminack during a robbery. Sixteen years later, the Supreme Court vacated his sentence, finding that jurors had not been ...