In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent years.

A federal judge ordered a new trial for Alabama Death Row inmate Christopher Barbour. But Alabama AG Steve Marshall’s office ...

As James Duckett faces execution at the end of this month for the 1987 murder of an 11-year-old girl, his lawyers are confident that DNA testing will prove he is innocent. On Friday, a week after Gov.

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

"My husky mix is around 13 [percent] wolfiness. It was surprising at first, but she does murder a lot of pigeons," said one user.

“That was the moment we realized this was bigger than coincidence,” the rescue worker told Newsweek.