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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]
Sabrina Butler-Smith tells Rachel Sharp how she lost six-and-a-half years of her life in prison, was labeled a ‘child killer’ and was robbed of the chance to grieve for her nine-month-old son.
5 days ago · Our guest today is Anthony Graves. Mr. Graves was exonerated from death row in Texas in 2010 and has become an advocate for criminal justice reform. He created the Anthony Graves Foundation, which has done work on a variety of criminal justice issues.
Aug 3, 2015 · Death row exonerees, including McCollum and Brown and Melendez, Butler, and Wilhoit, are living witnesses to the damaging effects of the death penalty and the huge risk we take...
Feb 18, 2021 · Each of the former death-row inmates I interviewed belongs to an organization called Witness to Innocence. Based in Philadelphia since 2005, WTI is a nonprofit led by exonerated death-row...
- Phillip Morris
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5 days ago · 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.
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Mar 21, 2021 · A recent study by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) revealed that in two-thirds of overturned death row convictions, official misconduct, perjury or false accusations played a role...
