A court granted James Duckett’s request to test for DNA evidence after Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered his execution.

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.

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

"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing.

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

More than a decade after a woman was kidnapped outside of a Tamarac apartment and sexually assaulted, one of the suspects has ...