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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 to 31,900 years. Detailed data from 1989 regarding every known exoneration in the United States is listed.
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] 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). [ 2 ]
Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (2021–22), a proposed act to investigate potential reparations for slavery in the United States, introduced as H.R. 40 George Floyd Justice In Policing Act (2020–21) - sought to combat police misconduct, excessive force, and racial bias in American policing after ...
Image credits: famous_unicorn #2. Olga of Kiev. Some jerks called the Drevlians killed her husband and tried to have her marry their Prince. She fooled them into sending their most important men ...
President-elect Trump on Wednesday used a lengthy Christmas Day social media post to tell the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by President Biden to “go to hell.” “Also, to ...
List of cities and counties in the United States offering an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance; Homeless Bill of Rights; State equal rights amendments; Employment discrimination law in the United States; Discrimination based on hair texture in the United States; Public accommodations in the United States
This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 119 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.
The Espy file, [35] compiled by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla, lists 15,269 people executed in the United States and its predecessor colonies between 1608 and 1991. From 1930 to 2002, there were 4,661 executions in the United States; about two-thirds of them in the first 20 years. [36]