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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.
This is a list of women on death row in the United States. The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
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As of October 1, 2023, there were 2,262 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
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1895 1. Michael Sabol, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1891. 1897 1. George Rusnak, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1891. 2. William Jackson Marion, Nebraska. Convicted 1887. 1898 1. Will Purvis, Mississippi. Convicted 1893.
1901 1. Michael J. Synon, Illinois. Convicted 1900. 1902 1. Henry Miller, Arkansas. Convicted 1888. 1905 1. Samuel Greason, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1901.
1911 1. David Sherman, Tennessee. Convicted 1907. 2. Andrew Toth, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1891. 3. Stearns Kendall Abbott, Massachusetts. Convicted 1880. 1913 1. J.B. Brown, Florida. Convicted 1901. 1915 1. John McElwrath, Tennessee. Convicted 1903. 1917 1. Herman Zajicek, Illinois. Convicted 1907. 1918 1. Charles Stielow, New York. Convicted 1915.
1920 1. Frank Jordano, Louisiana. Convicted 1919. 2. John Pender, Oregon. Convicted 1913. 1928 1. George Williams, North Carolina. Convicted 1922. 2. Fred Dove, North Carolina. Convicted 1922. 3. Frank Dove, North Carolina. Convicted 1922. 1929 1. Joseph Weaver, Ohio. Convicted 1927.
1930 1. Gangi Cero, Massachusetts. Convicted 1927. 2. Richard Phillips, Virginia. Convicted 1900. 1931 1. William Harper, Virginia. Convicted 1931. 1933 1. Harry Cashin, New York. Convicted 1931. 2. Edward Larkman, New York. Convicted 1926. 1936 1. Gus Langley, North Carolina. Convicted 1932. 1937 1. Eugene Williams, Alabama. Convicted 1931. 2. Wil...
1940 1. George Bilger, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1938. 1942 1. Walter Woodward, Florida. Convicted 1933. 2. Jack Williamson, Florida. Convicted 1933. 3. Charlie Davis, Florida. Convicted 1933. 1943 1. William Wellmon, North Carolina. Convicted 1942. 1945 1. Charles Bernstein, DC. Convicted 1933. 1946 1. Sidney Rudish, New York. Convicted 1943. 2. Mor...
1951 1. Horace Wilson, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. 2. James Thorpe, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. 3. John McKenzie, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. 4. McKinley Forrest, New Jersey. Convicted 1948. 1952 1. Silas Rogers, Virginia. Convicted 1943. 1953 1. George Lettrich, Illinois. Convicted 1951. 1956 1. Camilo Leyra, New York. Convicted 1950. 1957 1. L.D....
1961 1. Warren Billings, California. Convicted 1916. 1962 1. Robert Lee Kidd, California. Convicted 1960. 2. Isidore Zimmerman, New York. Convicted 1938. 1965 1. Theodore Jordan, Oregon. Convicted 1932. 1966 1. Robert Ballard Bailey, West Virginia. Convicted 1950. 1967 1. James Giles, Maryland. Convicted 1961. 2. John Giles, Maryland. Convicted 196...
1971 1. Lloyd Eldon Miller, Illinois. Convicted 1956. 1973 1. Dave Roby Keaton, Florida. Convicted 1971. 1974 1. Anthony Carey, North Carolina. Convicted 1973. 1975 1. Freddie Pitts and Wilbur Lee, Florida. Convicted 1963 2. Clarence Smith, Jr., New Mexico. Convicted 1974. 3. Ronald Keine, New Mexico. Convicted 1974. 4. Richard Greer, New Mexico. C...
1980 1. Jerry Banks, Georgia. Convicted 1975. 2. Larry Hicks, Indiana. Convicted 1978. 1981 1. Michael Linder, South Carolina. Convicted 1979. 2. Johnny Ross, Louisiana. Convicted 1975. 1982 1. Lawyer Johnson, Massachusetts. Convicted 1972. 1986 1. Anthony Silah Brown, Florida. Convicted 1983. 2. Neil Ferber, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1981. 3. Cliffo...
The Innocence Project has represented innocent people who were wrongly convicted of murder and condemned to death in cases that were compromised by police and prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, eyewitness misidentification, unreliable forensic evidence, racial bias, and more.
Jun 9, 2021 · If you want to believe that Roger Coleman was the man who raped and murdered 19-year-old Wanda McCoy, his sister-in-law, on the night of March 10, 1981, in her small home in the coal-mining town of...
Apr 29, 2014 · A new study argues that more than 4% of all defendants who have been sentenced to death -- and who remain under threat of execution -- are probably innocent. In a paper published Monday in the...
