DNA evidence points to humans reaching Australia 60,000 years ago The story of how people reached Australia and the Pacific has never sat still. Bits of evidence have shifted it back and forth over time. New genetic work, read alongside archaeology, nudges it further again. It suggests people were already moving into the landmass known…
Florida’s longest-serving death row inmate appeared in court Monday to seek a new trial based on new DNA evidence. 80-year-old Tommy Zeigler was wheeled into the courtroom connected to an oxygen tank, much frailer than when he was convicted in 1976 for the murders of his wife, in-laws, and a customer at his Winter Garden…
A British man who spent 38 years in prison for the 1986 murder of a barmaid had his conviction quashed on Tuesday by the UK Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence came to light.The 68-year-old Peter Sullivan is believed to be the UK’s longest-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice after three judges overturned…