Blood and Truth

It's been three years since the last episode of Blood and Truth, and Tommy Zeigler is still on death row. But with the election of a new state attorney comes fresh hope for the DNA testing Ziegler says could set him free after nearly five decades behind bars. Here's the latest.

Tommy Zeigler waited on Florida’s death row last year with hope that there would be another chance to test the evidence in his case. Listen to what happened.

Will prosecutors give Tommy Zeigler another chance at DNA testing?

Listen to Pulitzer Prize winner Leonora LaPeter Anton talk about what didn’t make it into this series, what’s happening with the Tommy Zeigler case and thoughts about his guilt or innocence.

Florida’s judicial system is designed to support a jury’s verdict, whether it was right or wrong.

Tommy Zeigler has spent more than four decades living in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell and trying not to get angry.

The advent of modern forensic science gives Tommy Zeigler hope, but prosecutors and judges keep rejecting his requests for DNA testing.

One juror struggles to make a decision and feels badgered by others who think the evidence is clear in Tommy Zeigler's case.