---
title: "Highlights from DPIC's New Innocence Report"
description: 'HIGHLIGHTS FROM DPIC’s NEW INNOCENCE REPORT DPIC recently released its latest report entitled “Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty.”'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/highlights-from-dpics-new-innocence-report'
section: news
date: '2004-09-27T17:59:34-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:54:02-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
---

!  **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**](/article.php?scid=45&did=1150), or printed copies may be purchased by [ **emailing DPIC**](mailto:dpic@deathpenaltyinfo.org).  
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.