Murder Convictions of 3 Pennsylvania Men Overturned After Nearly 25 Years in Prison

A Pennsylvania judge this week vacated the convictions of three men who have spent more than two decades behind bars for a grisly murder they say they did not commit. In 1997, Derrick Chappell, Samuel Grasty, and Morton Johnson were accused of killing Henrietta Nickens, a 70-year-old woman who was found beaten and sexually assaulted in her apartment. The trio, all of whom are Black, were in their teens and early 20s when they were arrested, and have long maintained their innocence. Their lawyers petitioned to have their convictions thrown...