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David Rojas was found guilty after forensic genetic genealogy linked him to Mary Kelly's 1989 murder and rape in Oak Cliff.
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David Rojas is accused of strangling and raping Oak Cliff resident Mary Hague Kelly in 1989.
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Texas has paid more than $50 million to compensate people wrongfully convicted of crimes in Dallas County.
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Ben Spencer was accused in part because of false testimony. He was formally exonerated in a Dallas court on Thursday.
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The $12,500 will go toward purchasing transportation vouchers for participants to make it to their court-ordered appointments.
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The court ruled Dallas County prosecutors shouldn't have used videos of a Greenville man rapping about drugs, weapons and not snitching about crimes to make their case against him in a 2019 capital murder trial.
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Police in Dallas won't pursue criminal charges from a seven-year-old sexual assault claim against Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, according to a television report Thursday.
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Charles Don Flores is on death row for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. A professor says his and others' research on witness memory could prove Flores' innocence.
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Richard Leal, 33, was convicted last week of delivering between four and 200 grams of fentanyl and other drugs, which now carries a harsher criminal penalty under a Texas law passed last year.
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Watkins was praised nationally for freeing wrongfully convicted prisoners but also was known for a controversial tenure as Dallas County's district attorney.
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Texas prosecutors have dropped murder charges against two people in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Seattle woman as a trial continues with the third defendant.
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The Dallas County District Attorney's Office has established a protocol for defense attorneys whose cases may be affected by deletion of Dallas Police Department body-worn camera videos.