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Apr 28, 2014 · Greg Smith/Corbis. Share: 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. "This was a very carefully done ...
Mar 21, 2021 · Ohio has executed 56 people since 1976. Currently, Ohio has 141 people on death row that include 79 Blacks, 56 Whites, four Latinos and one Asian, according to the DPIC. The state is 81% White, 13 ...
Sep 8, 2023 · On April 25, 2024, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania jury awarded $ 16 million to former death row prisoner Jimmy Dennis (pictured), who was wrongfully convicted and spent 25 years in prison. Following nine days of trial, jurors determined that the city of Philadelphia owes Mr. Dennis $ 10 million, and the two detectives ...
Feb 18, 2021 · Each of the former death-row inmates I interviewed belongs to an organization called Witness to Innocence. Based in Philadelphia since 2005, WTI is a nonprofit led by exonerated death-row inmates.
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Texas — Convicted: 1984; Executed: 2015. Texas executed Lester Bower on June 3, 2015, after he had spent more than 30 years on death row. Bower unsuccessfully challenged his conviction and sentence on numerous grounds, including that prosecutors had withheld evidence from the defense supporting his innocence claim.
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That’s almost 17 times more than the number of white people executed for murdering Black people, the DPIC notes. The Innocence Project currently represents people on death row with strong claims of innocence and supports coalitions working to ban the use of the death penalty. Virginia, Colorado, and New Hampshire became the most recent states ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Huntsville, Texas CNN —. The state of Texas on Wednesday executed death row inmate Ivan Cantu , who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin’s ...
