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Since 1973, 197 former death-row prisoners have been exonerated of all charges related to the wrongful convictions that had put them on death row. At Issue It is now clear that innocent defendants will be convicted and sentenced to death with some regularity as long as the death penalty exists.
- Executed But Possibly Innocent
It is now broadly accepted that the judicial review provided...
- Posthumous Pardons
South Carolina Pair Exonerated 94 Years After Execution -...
- Description of Innocence Cases
Osborne was only 17 at the time of the crime, and ended up...
- Innocence Database
DPIC uses a number of resources when adding cases to the...
- Innocence By The Numbers
Exonerations by 5-Year Span. From 1973-1999, there were an...
- Executed But Possibly Innocent
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment.
Since 1973, at least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). A 2014 study estimated that at least 4% of those sentenced to death are innocent.
MAGAZINE. Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong. Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t...
One in 25 criminal defendants who has been handed a death sentence in the United States has likely been erroneously convicted. That number—4.1% to be exact—comes from a new analysis of more than 3 decades of data on death sentences and death row exonerations across the United States.
