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Since 1973, 200 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.
It is now broadly accepted that the judicial review provided to death-penalty cases in the United States has been inadequate to prevent the execution of at least some prisoners who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. Some cases with strong evidence of innocence include: Carlos DeLuna (Texas, convicted 1983, executed 1989)
Twenty-nine wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners have been exonerated in Florida, the most in the nation. In 21 of the 23 Florida exonerations for which the jury’s sentencing vote is known, judges imposed the death penalty by overriding a jury recommendation for life or following a non-unanimous jury recommendation for death. Florida now ...
A recent national poll found that the number one issue raising doubts among voters regarding the death penalty is the danger of a mistaken execution. [1] Fifty-eight percent of voters are disturbed that the death penalty might allow an innocent person to be executed.
During the racist hysteria following the accusation, white mobs burned down black residences, a massive white posse lynched a black suspect, all-white juries condemned two innocent men to death and an innocent teen to a life sentence, and a racist sheriff murdered one of the men and attempted to kill another.
The public’s understanding of the grave dangers of wrongful capital convictions and death sentences deepened in 2021 as two innocent prisoners were exonerated more than 25 years after being wrongfully sentenced to die, and a multi-year Death Penalty Information Center review of more than 9,600 death sentences imposed since 1972 discovered 11 ...
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New research by the Death Penalty Information Center has found 11 previously unrecorded death-row exonerations, bringing the total number of people exonerated after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death to 185.
It helped exonerate 8 former death-row prisoners in the 1990s, 10 in the 2000s, 5 in the 2010s, and another 5 in the first 13 months of the 2020s. The lessons from the DNA evidence are two-fold: it has the power in many cases to prove a person’s innocence.
The NRE exoneration data reveals at least 13 exonerations that involved the wrongful use of the death penalty. In at least six of the wrongful homicide convictions, prosecutors had sought the death penalty at trial. In another, an innocent defendant pled guilty to avoid the death penalty.