HIGHLIGHTS FROM DPIC’s NEW INNOCENCE REPORT
DPIC recently released its latest report entitled “Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty.” The report is available from this Web site , or printed copies may be purchased by emailing DPIC .
Some highlights from the report include:
  • 116 inmates have been exonerated and freed from death row in 25 states since 1973.
  • These defendants together spent over 1,000 years incarcerated between their sentencing and exoneration.
  • More than half of the exonerations have occurred in the South, the region with the most executions.
  • 61% of those exonerated were from racial minorities.
  • As the pace of exonerations has increased in recent years, death sentences around the country have dropped by 50%. Public support is now almost evenly split between life without parole and the death penalty for those convicted of murder.

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