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Crime descriptions marked with an asterisk indicate that the events were later determined not to be criminal acts. People who were wrongfully accused are sometimes never released. By August 2024, a total of 3,582 exonerations were mentioned in the National Registry of Exonerations. The total time these exonerated people spent in prison adds up ...
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted.Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. [1]
In 1992, Wilson was arrested in the killing of three people in 1989, when Wilson was just 17. He and his 29-year-old co-defendant, Christopher Williams, were convicted in 1993.
It’s the same courthouse where five Black and Latino youths were wrongly convicted 34 years ago in the beating and rape of a white female jogger. ... convicted of felony crimes in a court of law ...
The National Registry of Exoneration databases show that in the cases of the nearly 3,500 people who have been exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half are related to ...
Anthony Charles Graves was convicted of the August 18, 1992 mass murder of six people in Somerville, after being implicated in the crime by Robert Carter—the father of one of the victims. Carter was executed in May 2000 for his part in the crime—and in his final statement took sole responsibility for the crime: "To the Davis family, I am ...
Three men who have served over two decades in prison for the murder of a 70-year-old woman in her home outside Philadelphia asked a judge to throw out their convictions, citing new DNA evidence ...