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Dec 12, 2011 · estimate is that 1 percent of the US prison population, approximately 20,000 people, are falsely convicted. In fact, since the late 1980s there have been as many as 850 exonerations nationwide, according to. University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross, a leading researcher in the field.
Some cases with strong evidence of innocence include: Carlos DeLuna (Texas, convicted 1983, executed 1989) Ruben Cantu (Texas, convicted 1985, executed 1993) Larry Griffin (Missouri, convicted 1981, executed 1995) Joseph O’Dell (Virginia, convicted 1986, executed 1997) David Spence (Texas, convicted 1984, executed 1997)
Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and...
Feb 18, 2021 · 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 guilty—their lives...
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Apr 28, 2014 · 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.
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.
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4 days ago · It is now clear that innocent defendants will be convicted and sentenced to death with some regularity as long as the death penalty exists. It is unlikely that the appeals process—which is mainly focused on legal errors and not on factual determinations—will catch all the mistakes.
