(The head of the crime lab) was committing perjury in criminal cases where he would intentionally misrepresent scientific data to help prosecutors get a conviction, even when he knew that that data was false.

The truth is if you speak to crime lab directors, they will tell you that in only a relatively small number of cases is there any DNA evidence.

The Innocence Project is thrilled to be the beneficiary of the band's generosity. The wave of post conviction DNA exonerations sends a message to all of us that the criminal justice system is broken and desperately needs to be fixed. Thank you Nine Inch Nails for joining us in the quest for meaningful justice.

In most of our cases, the critical biological evidence has either been lost or destroyed.

sloppy identification procedures that were utilized by the police, the same kind of procedures that are utilized by the police in Memphis, all over Tennessee, and frankly, all over the United States today.

I've got some good news for you, but first, I need to ask you a question, ... How do you feel about still pursuing your innocence?

There's an old saying that the absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.

DNA evidence has revealed a finite but troubling class of convictions tainted by what is best described as 'false facts': forensic evidence that likely carried great weight with the original jury, but which is now known, to a scientific certainty, to have been erroneous.

But more importantly, 90 percent of cases don't even involve biological evidence. And what that tells us is there are obviously tens of thousands of innocent people currently languishing in prisons in the United States.

Today we got one answer, and one man can not speak for the correctness of verdicts in a thousand other capital cases.