Statistics on innocence in the USA:
The triumph of innocence
In the USA, as of April 15th, 2016:
. 1770 prisoners have been exonerated in total
(Souce: National Registry of Exonerations)
. 156 death row prisoners have been exonerated
(source: Death Penalty Information Center)
. Nearly 50% of prisoners sentenced to death have been removed from death row, as their sentence or their conviction may have been overturned or commuted - Read more
Further Innocence Information
- National Registry of Exonerations - provides detailed information about all known exonerations (for all crimes, not just death penalty crimes) in the United States since 1989 - cases in which a person was convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges.
- Worldwide Innocence data base (111 countries)
- DPIC's Summary of the Innocence Protection Act of 2004
- DPIC Innocence reports & Statistics
- Possible cases of people currently wrongfully convicted of capital crime today in the USA
- Amnesty International report 2015: Innocence and the death penalty