Tuesday, May 22, 2012

101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later Exonerated

And there must be many more that were never brought to light.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/21/487535/report-101-people-sentenced-to-die-were-later-exonerated/

By Ian Millhiser on May 21, 2012

A new report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan and Northwestern law schools, chronicles over 2000 cases where a person convicted of a crime was later exonerated between 1989 and 2012. More than half of these exonerated persons “were cleared since 1995 in 13 ‘group exonerations,’ that occurred after it was discovered that police officers had deliberately framed dozens or hundreds of innocent defendants, mostly for drug and gun crimes.” Perhaps most distressingly, however, 101 of the exonerated individuals were convicted of murder and sentenced to die — nearly all of whom spent years or even decades behind bars before their criminal conviction was eventually overturned.

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